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Champions have been busy
preparing their units for the
anticipated site visit from the
Magnet Appraisers. Follow-
ing are some things that have
been done on various units by
our Champions:
Bulletin Boards with
monthly updates
Magnet Jeopardy at Unit
Board meetings
Blog with questions on
the department website
Answer the phone by
asking a Magnet ques-
tion
Posters featured on the
unit (leadership pictures,
articles done by Nurse
Practitioners in their
area)
Binder with newsletters
and other info available
in break areas and other
common areas for staff
to look through
Staff meetings with Pow-
erPoints, handouts, and
newsletters
Magnet Quizzes with
prizes for participants
Magnet Games and Puzzles
in unit newsletters
Champions can also review the
Magnet website and become
more familiar with the Re-
sources available to them. Re-
sources include:
Magnet Self-Study Guide
includes “Important Visit
Etiquette Information,”
“Tips for a Successful Vis-
it,” “Environment/Safety”
tips, a list of what to do
when the Appraisers visit
your work area, and sug-
gestions on how to prepare,
and how to look and act
during the actual visit. It
also includes some basic
information on Criteria for
a Magnet Hospital.
Magnet Prep Questions,
which are available accord-
ing to various categories.
Prep questions are available
for staff, according to their
role in the organization.
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There are also prep
questions for specific
committees and coun-
cils. The lists include
possible questions that
may be asked by the
Appraisers and are use-
ful as you prepare your-
self and your staff for
the different types of
questions that could be
asked.
VUMC Nursing Prac-
tice Summaries. These
summaries include the
Professional Practice
Model, Nursing Strate-
gic and Quality & Per-
formance Improvement
Plans, Care Delivery
Models and the Role of
Nurses, information on
VUMC’s Shared Gov-
ernance Model, as well
as the Scope of Services
by Entity.
To access resources, visit:
www.VanderbiltMagnet.com
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Team Captains:Team Captains:Team Captains:
Emails will go out on
Tuesday, November 1
requesting information
needed to award Team
Prizes. Be sure to keep an
eye on your inbox!
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Vanderbilt’s Nursing Professional Practice Model
The Nursing Professional Practice Model
has 4 Primary components:
1. Our interdisciplinary team surrounds
the patient and family to provide evi-
dence based care.
2. Our focus is to provide safe, quality
care to our patients and their families.
3. We have integrated technology to help
us provide coordinated care and com-
municate with each other as well as our
patients.
4. We bring profes-
sionalism to our work
through VPNPP and
certification. Our
shared governance
model provides our
staff the opportunity to
participate in decision
making. We provide
continuing education
programs to develop
staff’s leadership skills
(frontline staff at the
bedside through execu-
tive level nursing lead-
ers).
The VUMC pillars are
in the background
because we set our
goals each year based on these foundational
pillars and they help us focus our patient
Vanderbilt’s Nursing Professional Practice
Model is based on the work of Nursing
Theorist, Virginia Henderson. One im-
portant contribution of Henderson is that
she saw nursing as an important part of the
interdisciplinary team and that nursing
brings a unique body of knowledge and
care to the beside.
Our Model of Care is Patient/Family
Centered – as shown in this conceptual
diagram.
care and leadership initiatives.
Our Nursing Bylaws guide us in provid-
ing care that is Patient and Family Cen-
tered:
All patients are entitled to safe, effec-
tive, evidenced-based nursing care.
Nursing care of the patient is enhanced
by use of an evidence-based care deliv-
ery system tailored to the uniqueness
of each patient and provider.
The continuous measurement, evalua-
tion and improvement of nursing prac-
tice are essential to the provision of
safe, effective, evidence-based nursing
care.
The patient is best served by the nurs-
ing staff’s collaboration with other
hospital staff, participation in educa-
tional and research programs, and use
of EBP.
All nursing staff are accountable for
our mission of continuous quality im-
provement, patient safety, customer
satisfaction, and cost effective, evi-
dence-based, value-added care.
Patients are best served in a healthcare
environment that fosters learning, stim-
ulates professional growth and pro-
motes nursing research and innovation
in nursing practice.
This diagram shows
examples of organiza-
tional work that
demonstrate compo-
nents of our Profes-
sional Practice Model.
What examples
can you add that
illustrate these
components of
Vanderbilt’s Nurs-
ing Model in your
own department??
What are examples
of how you imple-
ment/support Pa-
tient/Family Cen-
tered Care in your
area?