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  HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®* 
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An easy-to understand guide that will provide nurses with the knowledge they need to safely administer medications that the JCAHO and Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) have deemed high-alert medications.

May 13, 2008   (Volume 4, Issue 19)
 
Keep patients safe with three questions

The Partnership for Clear Health Communication (PCHC) estimates that 90 million people in the United States have problems reading and understanding healthcare information related to their needs. To improve patients’ healthcare literacy, PCHC developed a program that provides educational materials in English and Spanish called Ask Me 3.

 
Designation: Reaching out to nonnursing staff
Educating nursing and nonnursing staff is important when preparing for ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) designation. While it is a nursing excellence award, it takes the entire organization to achieve status.
 
Verifying decision-making authority
To help shared governance committees verify what decisions they can make, they first have to understand their role and authority, says Barbara Hannon, MSN, RN, CPHQ, coordinator for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® (MRP) at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics—an MRP recipient in 2004.
 
Ask the expert: Shared governance: Sharing success
This week, a reader asks if it’s important to share shared governance success with department managers. Read the response from our advisor Meryl Montgomery, RN, MSN, director of the learning center and ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® project director at Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon, GA.
 

Other recently-published articles from HCPro's Weekly Update on the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®*:

Inside the news: U.S. News selects 19 hospitals for honor roll
Inside best practice: Celebrate other nursing units
Inside the Forces: Exemplify the image of nursing
Inside scoop from our experts: Get your nurses interested in literature and research
Inside the news: Competition for new nurses heats up in Alabama
Inside best practice: Don’t let recruitment overshadow retention
Inside the Forces: Foster effective communication between nurses
Inside scoop from our experts: Select the right nurses to be preceptors
Inside the news: Hospital of excellence set to rise in Dubai
Inside best practice: Reap benefits from creating a partnership
Inside the Forces: Show community recognition!
Inside scoop from our experts: Should managers and patient care technicians vote?
Inside the news: Massachusetts hospital enjoys double celebration
Inside best practice: Prepare staff to be leaders and facilitators
Inside the Forces: Pilot-test evidence-based practice changes at your facility

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