2007 Resolution - Number 9-07

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SUBJECT: Magnet Status

Introduced by: Anne Bové, RN, NYSNA Delegate Assembly President and the UAN Executive Council

Action: Passed 3/22/07

WHEREAS, the UAN Executive Council adopted the Labor Criteria for Awarding of Magnet Status on March 26, 2003, with the goal of ensuring that, “ANCC’s Magnet award process will include labor criteria and instill a stronger staff nurse voice in the appraisal process with the result that a Magnet award equates to highest quality health care delivered in a premier work setting;” and

WHEREAS, the NLA adopted a resolution in 2006 supporting the efforts of the UAN Executive Council and the UAN Magnet Task Force to communicate to ANCC the importance of using labor criteria for awarding Magnet Status because these criteria protect the working conditions of staff nurses and ensure the delivery of the highest quality health care possible; and

WHEREAS, the 2006 NLA resolution directs the UAN Magnet Task Force to reiterate strong support for these criteria to the ANCC and encourage them to expeditiously adopt a process for their inclusion; and

WHEREAS, the 2007 NLA is to receive a report on the Magnet program and consider taking a position on the program at that time, and to date, ANCC has not responded favorably to the work of the UAN Magnet Task Force; and

WHEREAS, discussions between the UAN and ANCC regarding the role of the collective bargaining nurse and the UAN's labor criteria for Magnet Status have not resulted in a change in ANCC criteria;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the 2007 NLA urges ANCC to include in their forces of magnetism the involvement of staff nurses and a respect for collective bargaining rights as necessary criteria to be awarded Magnet Status; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the NLA urges ANCC to reject any future Magnet applicants who have demonstrated disregard for its staff nurses or their collective bargaining status, as having met the criteria necessary to being awarded Magnet Status.