ANCC Magnet® journey

Temple Region has achieved Magnet nursing designation

The Magnet® Recognition Program designates organizations worldwide where nursing leaders successfully align their nursing strategic goals to improve the organization’s patient outcomes. The MagnetRecognition Program provides a roadmap to nursing excellence, which benefits the whole of an organization. To nurses, Magnet Recognition means education and development through every career stage, which leads to greater autonomy at the bedside. To patients, it means the very best care, delivered by nurses who are supported to be the very best that they can be.

The Temple region designation extends to all the region's clinics, the Continuing Care Hospital and Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Medical Center. The Temple region achieved designation on February 4, 2021.

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Transformational leadership

  • Baylor Scott & White Temple Region Nursing encompasses three hospitals, multiple ambulatory clinics and hospice care in five counties of central Texas.
  • Nursing Leadership puts the patient first in care that emphasizes safety and best outcomes.
  • All Nursing Leaders completed the Professional Fundamentals Series in 2019.

Structural empowerment

Baylor Scott & White Health Temple Market (BSWH-TM), plans for and encourages professional nurses to obtain their national certification in their nursing specialty. BSWH-TM has processes and structures to support eligible nurses in obtaining professional nursing certification appropriate to their specialty such as: 

  • Participating in the ANCC “Success Pays” program 
  • Supplying nurses with an ONCC “Free Take” code 
  • Subscribing to the PNCB “No Pass, No Pay” program 
  • Providing testing fee reimbursement for all other eligible initial and re-certifications 
  • After completion of your initial certification the registered nurses also receives a $500 bonus 

At Baylor Scott & White Health Temple Market, 54% of nurses have their BSN, 16% have their MSN, and 2% have their DNP/PhD. 

Exemplary professional practice

  • AHA Get with the guidelines Gold Plus Target:  Stroke honor roll elite
  • AHA Get with the guidelines Gold Plus Target:  Type 2 Diabetes honor roll
  • AHA 2021 Mission Lifeline NSTEMI GOLD (received summer 2022)
  • AHA 2021 Mission Lifeline Receiving GOLD PLUS (received summer 2022)
  • Fortune Best Workplaces in Texas, BSWH #23
  • #1 Top Major Teaching Hospital in Texas, Fortune / Merative
  • Ranked #5 US Hospitals 100 Tops Hospitals, Fortune / Merative
  • America's 250 Best Hospitals, Healthgrades
  • Gastrointestinal care excellence award, Healthgrades
  • America's 100 Best Gastrointestinal surgery, Healthgrades
  • Bariatric surgery excellence award, Healthgrades
  • Critical care excellence award, Healthgrades
  • Patient safety excellence award, Healthgrades
  • 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals, IBM Watson Health
  • VAD certification, Joint Commission
  • Leapfrog Grade A, Leapfrog
  • CMS 5 Star Rating, Leapfrog
  • Level 3 Epilepsy Center for 2022 and 2023, The National Association of Epilepsy Centers (NAEC)
  • Optum Certification: Bariatric Surgery
  • 3-star rating, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
  • USNWR Best Regional Hospitals: 2022-23
  • USNWR America's 250 Best Hospitals
  • U.S. News & World Report High performing in 5 adult specialties and 13 Procedures / Conditions:
    • Procedures and conditions related to Cancer: Colon, lung, uterine surgeries
    • Procedures and conditions related to Cardiology & Heart Surgery:  heart attack, heart failure
    • Procedures and conditions related to Diabetes & Endocrinology:  Diabetes
    • Gastroenterology & GI surgery
    • Nephrology
    • Procedures and Conditions Related to Neurology & Neurosurgery:  Stroke
    • Procedures and Conditions Related to Obstetrics & Gynecology:  Maternity care, Uterine cancer surgery
    • Orthopedics
    • Procedures and Conditions Related to Orthopedics:  Hip replacement, knee replacement
    • Pulmonology & Lung Surgery
    • Procedures and Conditions Related to Pulmonology & Lung Surgery:  COPD, Lung cancer surgery, pneumonia
    • Urology
  • Chest Pain - MI Registry, National Cardiovascular Data Registry
  • AACN Beacon Aware for Excellence, Silver:  MICU & STICU, (CTICU pending notice applied for Gold)

New knowledge, innovations and improvements

Nursing research

Completed nursing research:

  1. Psychotherapy and Opioid Management: A Retrospective Chart Review - a Quantitative Study by Guillermo Carnegie Jr., DNP, APRN, FNP-C – primary instigator. 
  2. Comfort Menu- Pain Selection for the Pediatric Population - a Quantitative Study by Molly Flint, BSN, RN – primary instigator
  3. Shift Stacking and the Zero Harm initiative - a Quantitative Study by Jessica Carlin, BSN, RN – primary instigator
  4. Transition to Professional Practice in the US: Exploring the relationship between acculturation, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction in the transitioning of Internationally Educated Nurses Reference – a Qualitative and Quantitative Study by Marlene Porter, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CEN, CCRN, Kate Williams, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, Leslie Gembol DNP, RN, NEA-BC
  5. Work Engagement, Burnout, & Well-being in NPD Qualitative Study – a Qualitative and Quantitative study by Marlene Porter, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CEN, CCRN, Merideth Tanner, MSN, RN, CVRN
  6. Trust and Organizational Commitment in Nurses post pandemic - a Quantitative Study by Marlene Porter, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CEN, CCRN, Alicia Boaze DNP, RN, NEA-BC, Kate Williams, DNP, RN, NPD-BC, NEA-BC, Melissa Rennert DNP, RN, Amy Brunson MSN, RN CORN
  7. Comparing high fidelity simulator versus wearable simulator on communication, clinical judgment patient safety of an interprofessional team by Marlene Porter, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CEN, CCRN, Rebecca Lyon, MS, Jennifer McAdams MSN, RN, Alaina Tellson PhD, RN, NPD-BC
  8. Comfort Menu- Pain selection for adult population - a Quantitative Study by Molly Flint, BSN, RN, Meghan Engelke MSN, RN
  9. Does Pressure Injury Wound Bed Tissue Blanch? - a Quantitative Study by Marissa Hudler, MSN, RN, WCC, CFCN, OMS
  10. Nurse- driven allostatic load screenings on repeat hospitalizations for underserved type 2 Diabetic patients: an experimental study - a Quantitative Study by Dennis Ho, MSN, RN
  11. Promoting Confidence: Using Simulation Pedagogy to Professionally Develop Patient Care Technicians - a Quantitative Study by Lagidgette Robinson, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC

On-going nursing research:

  1. Right Sizing Nurses' Tasks: A Correlational Study - a Quantitative Study by Marlene Porter, PhD, RN, NPD-BC, CEN, CCRN, Kimberly Bertini DNP, RN, NE-BC
  2. Defining the role of the nurse supervisor: An exploratory study - a Quantitative Study by Dustin Watts, MSN, RN, MEDSURG-BC
  3. Efficacy of withholding oral intake in the immediate period post thrombolytic
    for acute ischemic stroke - a Quantitative Study by Penelope Mcabe, BSN, RN, SCRN, CCRN-K
  4. Social Determinant Factors of Renal Transplant Readmissions- a  Quantitative study by Ceara Rojas BSN, RN
  5. Comparing the difference in pain control in the pediatric general surgery population: To alternate or combine acetaminophen and ibuprofen? A quantitative study by Leah Wollard BSN, RN, CPN, Elizabeth Gutierrez MSN, RN; Sydney Cooper MD, & Marlene Porter PhD, RN, CEN, CCRN, NPD-BC
  6. Comparison of two risk assessment scales in predicting the risk of intraoperative acquired pressure injury in the pediatric surgical patient- a quantitative study by Lara Baustista BSN, RN & Heather Kral BSN, RN