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Healthcare Careers

Healthcare Careers

Healthcare Careers

Nursing Education

Magnet - Journey to Nursing Excellence

Magnet Status designation is the gold standard in patient care.  This journey is the pinnacle of recognition for quality in a hospital's nursing program.  St. Mary's is diligently working toward this designation.

While St. Mary's is still young in this journey, the positive results are already affirming what other Magnet hospitals already know.  This experience creates better support for clinical decision making, greater access to information and resources and creates more collaborative and collegial relationships between nurses and physicians.  In addition, according to the American Nurses Credentialing Center, Magnet designated facilities:

  • Consistently outperform non-Magnet organizations
  • Delivery better patient outcomes
  • Experience increased time spent at the patient's bedside
  • Have shorter lengths of patient stay
  • Have lower patient mortality rates
  • Have lower incidence of injuries
  • Enjoy increased nurse retention and recruitment rates
  • Report lower rates of nurse burnout and higher job satisfaction rates
  • Report higher patient satisfaction rates

The following local institutions provide healthcare career educational opportunities.

UE - www.evansville.edu
USI - www.usi.edu
Henderson Community College - www.hencc.kctcs.edu
Ivy Tech - www.ivytech.edu/evansville/

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