Magnet® Matters: Nursing Policy, Procedure, and Standards of Practice Council helps create, set standards
This is the eighth 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.
The next few Magnet Matters will focus on a Shared Governance Council and the projects the members have been a part of over the past year. The Nursing Policy, Procedure, and Standards of Practice Council is led by Jackie Johnson BSN, RN-BC, and Traci Ashcraft BSN, RN-BC.
Over the past several years, this council has completed a thorough review of all policies, procedures, and standards of care for nursing practice.
Other projects include:
- Establishing a standardized process for the formation, review, and revision of nursing policies, procedures and standards of practice by involving the bedside nurse
- Continual review of all policies that have a nurse involved (nursing only or housewide)
- Maintain, update, revise policies as needed
- Created a user-friendly website
More Shared Governance facts will be included in the next Magnet® Matters.
Other articles in the Magnet® Matters series:
Practice Council reviews patient care challenges, recommends solutions
Examining Nursing's Shared Governance Council