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seeing the pride on the other nurses faces of what they have done in their units
with their quality and their patient satisfaction and just seeing others like
being so proud of themselves inspired me too with some of that pride to take back
to my own clinic and do some of the things that that I've seen in the
hospital there was definitely an enthusiasm through each unit it was also
nice to see when all the staff nurses were speaking to the appraisers how
excited they were about it it wasn't they weren't nervous about it something
that made me most proud during the magnet site visit it was just the display
of the unit's kind of excellence and how the units just showed off some of their
work often times we forget what units do until we begin to visit them and that
was kind of pretty impressive visiting some of the unit's the scrapbooks they
had put together some of the presentations on the walls that they had
put together so that kind of made me most proud
during that site visit
the biggest thing I think is just the gravity of this recognition and the
natural progression of planning goals for the nurses to accomplish through
counsel shepherding the nurses through that process of effecting actual change
that affects patient care and then being able to celebrate it on such a large
scale in front of such noted appraisers during the site visit I learned that the
appraisers really do care about the thoughts and beliefs of the nurses at
the bedside I've learned a lot but one of the things I learned the most was
that we really have an impressive community presence I think I knew some
things that we did but was really impressed with the magnitude of what we
do we do a farm market outreach we help the schools we do glasses programs it's
just makes me really proud of the magnitude of what we do and that
everyone knows Penn State in this community
what magnet means to me is nursing excellence but also nurses striving to
be excellent and nurses going above and beyond when it comes to research when it
comes to different projects within the unit and also the implementation of
those projects hospital-wide so magnet means to me is nurses getting involved
but then nurses also making an impact through the hospital through the
community magnet means having a voice and it means a spirit of collaboration with
other nurses throughout the institution magnet means coming to work each day
knowing that each person that you work with is here to do their best for the
patient's every day working in a magnet Hospital means to me that nurses are
valued and empowered to improve not only patient care but the care of ourselves
as nurses and the rest of the staff I love the teamwork here at Hershey
Medical Center I've worked here a very long time and people often say why is it
that you've stayed this long I've always enjoyed everyone that I work
with and feel that everyone has the same goal taking care of the patients every
day you can look anywhere in this hospital and you could see how
innovative and inspired we are I mean I've read so many stories about this is
why we give care I mean you hear the commendation from patients about how
great it is to get care at Penn State Hershey Medical Center I feel that this
is where I want to be I mean I can work probably many other hospitals in central
Pennsylvania but for me Penn State Hershey is the place I want to be it is
my honor to officially tell you that the Commission unanimously voted to
credential the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center has the magnet
organization again congratulations I'm proud to work for a magnet magnet magnet
magnet magnet magnet magnet designated hospital
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