Magnet Nursing Podcast

If you have ever been handed the Magnet manual and told to start writing, this episode is for you. Host Franklin Nduku, MSN, RN, Magnet Program Director and national Magnet consultant, counts down the ten most important things you need to know before you write a single word for Magnet. It does not matter whether you are a Magnet Program Director, a chief nurse, a manager, or frontline staff who go...

Building a shared governance structure from scratch is one of the hardest things a hospital can take on. Or so it seems. There are so many moving parts that nurse leaders and Magnet Program Directors keep stalling on the same question: where do we even start? Host Franklin Nduku, MSN, RN, EBP-C, argues the build is not the hard part. In this episode he walks through the exact sequence for standing...

Magnet Program Directors spend their days chasing nurses and executives for write-ups people promised months ago. Host Franklin Nduku, MSN, RN, EBP-C, argues it doesn't have to work that way. In this episode he breaks down the exact structure he built to generate 50 or more Magnet write-ups in a single year, without hunting anyone down. The secret isn't working harder. It's connecti...

Why aren't there more Magnet hospitals? There are only about 670, and host Franklin Nduku, MSN, RN, MPD argues there should be thousands. The Magnet Program Director (MPD) role is poorly defined. This episode fixes that. In this first episode of the Magnet Nursing Podcast, Franklin breaks down what really stands between a hospital and Magnet designation, and why the Magnet Program Director (M...