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Magnet Nurses

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Magnet is the status awarded to hospitals by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), an affiliate of the American Nurses Association. To obtain this, it requires hospitals to develop, disseminate and enculturate evidence based criteria that result in a positive work environment for nurses and, by extension, all employees (American Nurses Credentialing Centre (ANCC), 2014). During the 1980s, American hospitals were suffering from significant nursing shortage and high turnover at hospitals. However, some hospitals were seen as a magnet for nurses and better able to retain nurses because of their more supportive work environment. Hence, magnet hospital designation was developed in the 1990s to award those hospitals that have better nurse
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