Magnet® Matters: What is the Quality Care Model?
This is the fourth in a series of articles to educate faculty and staff about what it means to be a Magnet® hospital. WVU Medicine-WVU Hospitals has been named a Magnet® hospital three times. It became the first and only West Virginia hospital to achieve such recognition in 2005, and was re-designated in 2009 and 2015. The hospital, which remains the state's only Magnet® hospital, is up for re-designation this year. Contact Magnet® Program Director Lya M. Stroupe with questions.
To be selected for Magnet® designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), hospitals must have a proven track record of excellence in nursing services. In short, they are the country’s elite hospitals.
So what is the Quality Care Model?
Our Professional Practice Model, highlighted in a previous Magnet® Moment article, is rooted in theory. Our theory is that the Quality Care Model defines the direct care nures as:
- The link between the patient and the healthcare team.
- Someone who initiates, cultivates, and sustains caring relationships.
- Someone who uses evidence to affect patient outcomes through team leadership and interdisciplinary collaboration as the coordinator of patient care.
Through the Qualtiy Caring Model, nurses are able to focus on what matters most – caring and healing relationships at the point of care.
Other articles in the Magnet® Matters series: