title: Magnet nursing award is more than a gold star.
abstract: Winning hospitals find application data useful, too. If you want to apply for the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Magnet Recognition Program, be forewarned: It is a daunting application that asks for documentation providing you meet 14 different criteria -- from having visible nursing leadership and nurse involvement in planning and decision making to ensuring you have enough staff with rge right credentials and good salaries and benefits.
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D019985:Benchmarking; D003120:Colorado; D003406:Credentialing; D006801:Humans; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*