JOURNEY TO MAGNET
Exceptional Today, Even Better Tomorrow And Magnet® Every Day! ChristianaCare’s Magnet® journey reached a much-anticipated milestone in August 2019 when we submitted our Magnet redesignation application to the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), Caregivers across all service lines participated in the rigorous four-year process to build the document for our third Magnet redesignation. Behind each Magnet Model Component write-up there was a team of ChristianaCare nurse leaders, subject matter experts and writers who wrote, vetted and approved all content.
Setting a new bar
In 2018, ChristianaCare earned the ANCC Magnet Prize® for the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute’s virtual reality positive distraction therapy, developed by our oncology nurses. The technology helps lessen patient anxiety in certain clinical settings by virtually immersing them in environments like beaches, forests or popular destinations. This prestigious prize is awarded to only one health care system each year based on applications from across the globe. In 2019, we proudly welcomed representatives from ANCC and Cerner to ChristianaCare to show how the $50,000 prize was used. In addition to experiencing the virtual reality technology in person, they learned we have expanded the program to different clinical practice areas, including the 6E Oncology, Ambulatory Infusion and Labor and Delivery units, and that we are conducting research into this care optimization approach. Our visitors told us they’d never seen an organization do so much with the prize. ChristianaCare, they said, has “set a new bar.”
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