The Project Director's Toolkit, Second Edition
HCPro's Guide to Collecting Evidence and Writing Narratives for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®
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As you work through the maze of seemingly endless evidence collection and narrative writing for the documentation, turn to the one book that will guide and support you every step of the way: The Project Director's Toolkit: HCPro's Guide to Collecting Evidence and Writing Narratives for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program®, Second Edition.
The Project Director's Toolkit, Second Edition, provides actual examples of narratives and exhibits from designated organizations for you to use as blueprints when building your collection of evidence. You will receive interpretations for all 88 sources of evidence (SOEs) that fall under the new 5 Model Components, along with strategies to exemplify the updated SOEs to answer them correctly and thoroughly. The book is full of helpful tools, all of which can be downloaded and customized from the accompanying CD-ROM. The tools will help you develop the documentation you need to demonstrate to the appraisers what makes your facility worthy of this distinction.
Written with assistance from nursing professionals who know what it takes to write the documentation and achieve designation, the second edition of The Project Director's Toolkit also delivers:
- Tips to understand the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program's® expectations
- Case studies about the written documentation
- Best practices for developing a timeline for writing
- Tips on how best to collect and organize evidence
- Interpretation of the new 5 Model Components
- Strategies for selecting individuals or teams to craft clear and compelling written documentation
- Guidance to work through challenges you may face when writing the documentation
Whether you're participating as one member of a team or leading the charge toward designation, let The Project Director's Toolkit, Second Edition, be your resource for achieving Magnet Recognition Program® status.
Take a look at the Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Organize Your Approach to the Written Documentation
Chapter 2: A Case Study on the Written Documentation
Chapter 3: Component I: Transformational Leadership
Chapter 4: Component II: Structural Empowerment
Chapter 5: Component III: Exemplary Professional Practice
Chapter 6: Component IV: New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements
Chapter 7: Component V: Empirical Outcomes
Chapter 8: Wrap-Up: Formatting Your Written Documentation
Words of praise for the first edition of The Project Director's Toolkit . . .
"This resource is wonderful! It gave me direction on how to answer the sources and made it clear what was really being asked. I am not sure how I would have written the application without it." Carolyn Guinn, RN, MSN, Magnet Recognition Program® director at Winchester Medical Center in Winchester, VA
Earn 10 continuing education credits!
HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.
This educational activity for 10 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro. Learning objectives:Meet the Reviewer
Katherine Riley, MSN, RN, NE-BC, is coordinator for the ANCC Magnet Recognition Program® and vice president of nursing operations at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) in Bennington. She helped develop SVMC's clinical advancement programs for nursing and imaging services, led the implementation of a shared governance model of professional practice across all clinical disciplines, and initiated a staff-supported salary model for women's and children's services-all of which were key ingredients to the hospital's initial designation. She has led SVMC's Magnet Recognition Program® application processes since 2001.
Meet the Contributing Writers
Barbara Bonificio, RN, MS, OCN, is the professional practice specialist for operations at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, NY, and is responsible for leading her institution through the Magnet Recognition Program®.
Elise I. Gropper, PhD, RN, CPHQ, is the President of Gropper and Associates, Inc., a national healthcare consulting firm located in Coral Springs, Florida.
Cindy Goodrich, RN, MSN, EdD, is the coordinator for the Magnet Recognition Program® at Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA.
Linda Jenkins MSN, RN-BC, ACNS-BC, is an acute care clinical nurse specialist at Centra Health in Lynchburg, VA.
Faculty disclosure statement: HCPro Inc. has confirmed that none of the faculty/presenters or contributors have any relevant financial relationships to disclose related to the content of this educational activity.
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SOURCE CODE: ECMW
ISBN: 978-1-60146-605-1
PUBLISHED: 03/01/2009
