Ready, Set, Designation! Guide for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program Site Visit

Spiralbound Book, 218 pages + bonus CD-ROM
Size: 9" x 7.5" + CD
4 nursing contact hours
ISBN 1601460848
978-1601460844
HCPro / Opus
August 2007
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Fun, engaging, effective, interactive, and low-cost - that's how you describe a successful education program.

After the enormous amount of time, energy, and resources invested in the pursuit of ANCC Magnet Recognition Program status, some applicants miss out on the designation because of a single crippling factor: They lack the culture of nursing excellence.

You can't create the culture overnight, so don't try to use a blitz approach to education as the countdown to the site visit begins. Help develop and sustain your culture by activating your educational efforts from day one. You can entertain while you teach with Ready, Set, Designation! It offers the best, most effective training tools that entertain while they teach. They sustain staff interest and remind them of key issues at the same time.

This must-have training tool provides a variety of entertaining educational methods. Each method can be customized to your organization and used over and over in many different ways.

Cultivate a culture that embodies the 14 Forces of Magnetism with organization wide training. To succeed every step of the way throughout the journey, the initiative must be supported from the outset by all employees. And, during the site visit, appraisers will spend a lot of time on the floor with your staff to determine whether your culture reflects the highest quality of nursing excellence. That means you must make sure that staff at all levels and in all disciplines are knowledgeable about the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program and demonstrate your facility's commitment to quality and professionalism.

This educational activity for 4 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc. HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

With Ready, Set, Designation! you'll also get:

Descriptions and examples of TOOLS, GAMES, EVENTS, and other creative ideas to create and sustain a culture of nursing excellence in fun and memorable ways, such as Wheel of Nursing.
BEST PRACTICES to build and sustain the culture from your peers on the journey.
More than 30 QUESTIONS covering the 14 Forces of Magnetism as well as other key topic areas emphasized by appraisers during recent surveys.
A CD-ROM with many of the games, questions, and tools in electronic format—all you have to do is print and distribute!

Customize to fit your facility - every game, tool, and strategy in Ready, Set, Designation! can be tailored to fit your facility's specific needs. This "hands-on" training resource makes it easy to tailor your education to everyone on your staff—from your newest employee to the most seasoned, high-level staff executive. Take a look at just a few of the questions, games, tools, and strategies you'll find in Ready, Set, Designation!

Fun EVENTS
- Talent Show
- Organization wide Contest
- Breakfast of Champions
- Mock site visit framework
- and more!
Interactive GAMES
- Poker
- Wheel of Excellence
- Apprenticeship
- Knowledge Bowl
- Nursing Pyramid
- and more!
Training TOOLS
- Word Search
- Paycheck Reminders
- Posters
- Checklist
- Cheat Sheet
- and more!

It's organized into four easy-to-use sections:

Section I: Planning and Organizing
Section II: Questions by Force and Other Key Focuses
Section III: Best Practices to Build and Sustain a Culture of Nursing Excellence
Section IV: Games, Events, and Tools for Staff Training

Learning objectives for your staff include that they will be able to:

Justify the need to plan and organize staff education for the journey
Explain at least three solutions to the common barriers associated with organization wide training
Recognize at least five strategies for successful staff education
Develop an assessment tool to determine the training activities than need to be implemented and to identify the learning needs of target audiences
Develop an evaluation tool to measure the effectiveness of training
List the top eight questions that nursing staff should be prepared to answer as part of their ongoing education
Identify one question related to each Force of Magnetism that an appraiser may discuss with staff nurses during the site visit
Identify the target group who appraisers are most likely to approach for questioning about the 14 Forces of Magnetism
Describe at least five best practices for building or sustaining the culture of nursing excellence

This is a must-have resource for ANCC Magnet Recognition Program directors/educators, nurse educators, staff developers, CNOs / VPs of nursing, patient services, directors of nursing, and nurse managers.

Carolyn K. Lewis, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC attended the University of Virginia for her undergraduate and graduate education. Her doctoral degree is in Nursing Administration with a concentration in Health Policy from George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia. She has received several local, state and national awards and has served on many national boards. Her present position is the Assistant Dean for the Nursing Division of the Bluegrass Community and Technical College and serves as a Principal of The P.R.I.N.E. Group, LLC in healthcare consultation.

Cheryl A. May MBA, BSN, BA works at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. During her more than 25 years of experience, Cheryl has had the opportunity to work in multiple healthcare environments including cardiology, community case management, physician recruitment, utilization review, ambulatory administration, and clinical research phase III and IV with the FDA. Formerly the Interim Director of the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, she also served as Executive Director of the Arizona Nurses Association, Senior Policy Analyst with the American Nurses Association during the 104th Congress.

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