Baldrige Category | Magnet Characteristics | Studer Group Tools |
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1. Leadership
1.1 Senior Leadership
1.2 Governance and Social Responsibilities |
- Strong leadership support of nursing
- CNO represents nurses at highest level
- Nursing controls its practice
- Focus on creating a blameless environment
- Management fosters and supports excellence through the development of clinical competence and leadership capability
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- Leader Development Institutes
- Senior Leader Rounding
- Rounding for Outcomes
- 6th Pillar - Community
- Leader Evaluations
- CNOs are part of Administrative team
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2. Strategic Planning
2.1 Strategy Development
2.2 Strategy Deployment
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- Congruence among organization’s vision and values and nursing dept strategic plan
- Organization is responsive to changes in environment
- CNO exerts influence on strategic planning
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- Strategy Development – Pillars
- Strategy Deployment – 90-day plans
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3. Focus on Patients, Other Customers, and Markets
3.1 Patient, Other Customer, and Health Care Market Knowledge
3.2 Patient and Other Customer Relationships and Satisfaction |
- Staffing system incorporates patient needs
- Nurses perceive they provide high quality care
- Process for assessing, planning, organizing, implementing, and evaluating educational needs of all patient populations
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- Key Words at Key Times
- Training on AIDET
- Discharge Phone Calls
- Individualized Patient Care methods
- Nurse loader rounding on every patientevery day
- Service recovery process hardwired -data tracked and trended to identify process improvement issues
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4. Measurement, Analysis, and Knowledge Management
4.1 Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement of Organizational Performance
4.2 Management of Information, Information Technology, and Knowledge |
- Comprehensive plan to assess, analyze, and evaluate clinical and operational processes and outcomes
- Access literature and databases for use by nurses in planning, providing, sand evaluating patient care.
- Collaboration with internal resources and external organizations is apparent
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- Leadership Evaluation Manager
- Unit specific patient data as well as unit specific turnover
- Unit specific dashboards and leaderreport cards
- Data driven decision-making
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5. Workforce Focus
5.1 Workforce Engagement
5.2 Workforce Environment |
- Orientation and mentoring is provided for clinicians, administrators, and other nursing-role specialties at all levels
- Competency, skill, and educational advancement are valued attributes and are supported
- Nurse satisfaction is measured
- Performance appraisal process is goal oriented and linked to standards
- Systematic performance appraisal process
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- High Middle Low discussions
- Thank You Notes
- 30- and 90-Day Reviews
- Rounding for Outcomes
- Peer Interviewing
- Employer of choice teams focus on retaining good staff
- Evaluation tied to employee satisfaction survey score and employee turnover rates
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6. Process Management
6.1 Work Systems Design
6.2 Work Process Management and Improvement |
- Collaborative mechanisms are evident in formulation and approval of clinical policies, standards, and/or guidelines
- Standards/structures and processes frame and shape practice of nursing.
- Care delivery models incorporate evidence-based practice
- Systems promote, support, monitor, and improve patient and staff safety
- Involvement of nurses in improvement planning and processes
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- AIDET – drives clinical improvement
- Service teams drive improvement
- Improved processes so nurses have more time
- Studer Group Call Light Study
- Ancillary support service evaluation tool
- Systematic processes = hardwiring excellence
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7. Results
7.1 Health Care Outcomes
7.2 Patient- and Other Customer-Focused Outcomes
7.3 Financial and Market Outcomes
7.4 Workforce-Focused Outcomes
7.5 Process Effectiveness Outcomes
7.6 Leadership Outcomes |
- Measured and benchmarked clinical outcomes
- Measured and benchmarked patient satisfaction
- Measured and benchmarked overall costs
- Measured and benchmarked staff satisfaction
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- Studer Group Pillar Alignment
- Quality
- Service
- Finance
- Growth
- People
- Community
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