Led by KU Leuven, Belgium, and the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in the US, Magnet4Europe is an evidence-based intervention backed by the successful Magnet Recognition Program ®, a voluntary hospital designation for nursing care excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. Over seventy hospitals from Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and Norway will receive a full-blown redesign of their workplaces – supported by one-to-one twinning with an experienced Magnet recognized hospital and an annual learning collaborative. 

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit, Magnet4Europe is in its second year with 65 European hospitals in six European countries. Some of America’s best hospitals are twinned 1:1 with European hospitals to introduce Magnet® principles to improve hospital work environments. In Europe, the intervention is evaluated in a randomized trial with a lagged control group. U.S. Magnet hospitals are participating in one of the largest studies ever on the association of work environments with clinician wellbeing and patient outcomes.

Magnet4Europe Attributed Goals

• Improve Work Environments

• Improve Job Related Health Outcomes of Nurses and Physicians

• Improve Patient Outcomes

Intervention

• Magnet Blueprint and Gap Analysis Tool

• One-to-one Twinning with US Magnet Hospitals

• Learning Collaboratives

• Critical Mass and Network Creation

• Actionable Feedback Report

Participation

• 73 EUROPEAN Hospitals across SIX Countries

• 67 US Magnet Hospitals FROM COAST TO COAST