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Educating nurses is key to formal nursing peer review

HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*, June 6, 2006

Formal (i.e., incident-based) nursing peer review is an essential component of organizations on the road to ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, as it holds nurses accountable for their practice, reveals educational needs, and provides opportunities to replicate practice exemplars.

One key to the success of implementing this type of peer review is educating the nursing staff. "We organized a marketing blitz through the education council, one of the shared governance councils at Prince William Hospital [in Manassas, VA]," says Laura Harrington, RN, MHA, CPHQ, practice director at The Greeley Company, the education and consulting division of HCPro, Inc., in Marblehead, MA. She recently helped Prince William Hospital design the structure and process, and educate and implement formal nursing peer review at this 170-bed community hospital planning to apply for designation in 2007. One type of communication used in the blitz is an educational forum for the nurses to attend identifying the new process, explaining its purpose, and enforcing a nonpunitive approach to case review, she adds.

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