Magnet Components
Transformational Leadership
Nursing leaders at all levels of a Magnet-recognized organization demonstrate advocacy and support on behalf of staff and patients to transform values, belief, and behaviors. The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is strategically positioned within the organization to effectively influence other executive stakeholders, including the board of directors/trustees.
Nursing's Mission, Vision and Values and strategic plan align with Providence’s priorities to improve performance, wherever nursing is practiced. Mechanisms must be implemented for evidence-based practice to evolve and for innovation to flourish. Nurses throughout the organization perceive their voices are heard, their input is valued, and their practice is supported.
As a Magnet-recognized organization, Providence Holy Cross embodies transformational leadership, shared decision making, and exemplary professional practices as nurses strive to improve patient outcomes and enhance the patient experience.
Structural Empowerment
Nurses throughout Magnet-recognized organizations are involved in shared governance, decision-making structures and processes to establish standards of practice and address opportunities for improvement. Nurse leaders serve on decision-making bodies that address excellence in patient care and the safe, efficient and effective operation of the organization. The flow of information and decision-making involves professional nurses at the bedside, in leadership, on interprofessional teams, as well as the chief nursing officer.
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center uses multiple strategies to establish structures, processes, outcomes, and expectations that support lifelong professional learning, role development, and career advancement of nurses. Relationships are established throughout the organization and with the community to encourage educational advancement.
Shared Governance
Our shared governance structure enables shared decision-making within the nursing department to ensure that our nurses participate in decision-making and action planning for best patient outcomes and the best nursing work environment. The councils normally meet monthly. The councils are as follows:
- Nursing UBC Coordinating Council
- Nursing Quality Improvement and Safety Council
- Nursing Satisfaction, Recruitment, Retention Council
- Nursing Professional Practice Council
- Nursing Research Council
- Nursing Magnet Council
- Nursing Leadership Council
Exemplary Professional Practice
Exemplary Professional Practice is one of the Magnet® model components of nursing care at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, and it’s through this that our nursing care is elevated. PHCMC nurses are motivated to provide the highest quality patient and family-centered care through exceptional professional practice. The nurses are driven by the principles of autonomous practice and are encouraged to exercise clinical judgement to advocate for their patient’s unique needs, with the goal of providing extraordinary care within the context of an interprofessional, collaborative healthcare team. It’s through continuous quality improvement and empowered professional nurses that units strive to outperform national nurse-sensitive benchmarks and reach nursing’s highest potential.
New Knowledge, Innovations, and Improvements
Providence Holy Cross nurses are called to be leaders and to advance the profession of nursing through the pursuit of new knowledge, innovations, and improvements. Our nurses, under the transformational leadership of CNO Jodi Hein, are inspired to initiate evidence-based practices, embark on research projects, generate new knowledge, implement cutting-edge technology, and work toward impactful advancements in the practice of nursing. Our nurses thrive under this invigorating culture of curiosity and visionary thinking to transform practice and the nursing profession, making a difference in patient’s lives, the surrounding community, and health for a better world.