

" Magnet designation is like the 'Nobel Prize' for nursing and our organization.
#MAGNET HOSPITAL PROFESSIONAL#
Professional Development - "If there is a class or convention that I want to attend, the department works hard to get me time off so that I can.".Interdisciplinary relationships - "We have good collaboration between our physician team and the nursing staff.".Image of nursing - "You're not just a lone nurse out there.All disciplines work very well together as a team.".It's very rewarding to teach and share with the new students, and I lvoe it." Nurses as teachers - "I'm a preceptor, so I'm able to take people under my wing and show them around.


Quality of nursing leadership - "Nurses from other units routinely help one another.Increased retention and recruitment of nurses.Increased attraction of high-caliber nurses, physicians and specialists.Home Health, Hospice and Long Term/Transitional Care.There are indications that nursing supervisory skill sets need to be upgraded in some instances. Nurses' ability to work professionally and autonomously is also important to their satisfaction. Our findings indicate that management support and nurse-manager relations are important to nurses' job satisfaction, but participants' views of management were fairly negative, an issue that management needs to address. We found that some magnet hospital characteristics apply in northern and rural western Canadian hospitals. They completed a survey and structured interview that provided data on their attitudes and perspectives about their hospital jobs. Participants were 123 nurses from 13 hospitals in western Canada. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which magnet hospital characteristics (management support, nurse-doctor and nurse-manager relationships, professional autonomy and responsibility) contribute to northwestern Canadian hospital nurses' job satisfaction. Magnet hospital factors are known to increase job satisfaction, which contributes to retention. Retention of health professionals is a serious problem in northern and rural Canada.
