The Magnet Program represents a credentialing process, whereby organizations of quality are recognized. What does the Magnet Recognition Program require, relative to research and evidence-based practice? (Select all that apply.)

Question

a. Nurses will participate in the institutional review process.
b. Nursing research will be a budget line item.
c. Only nurse researchers will conduct clinical research.
d. The institution will keep track of nursing research projects in progress and recently completed.
e. Care applied to patients will be, in a large part, supported by research.

Answer 1

ANS: A, B, D
Approval for Magnet status is obtained through the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The Magnet Recognition Program® recognizes evidence-based practice as a way to improve the quality of patient care and revitalize the nursing environment. Selection criteria for Magnet status that require health care agencies to promote the conduct of research and the use of research evidence in practice follow. Some of its point items are availability of current literature, dissemination of current literature, application of current literature to practice, nurse involvement in the institutional review process, research consultants actively involved in mentorship, budget line items for nursing research, tracking of all nursing research activities in progress, and education that has changed practice.