Magnet® Case Study — Charge⚡Health | RN-Led Innovation & Belonging
New Case Study Brief · Magnet® Impact

Your Magnet® Journey Is a Culture Journey.

Magnet® asks hospitals to prove that nurses lead innovation and shape the work environment. Charge gives your RNs a daily practice of peer recognition — and gives your application the everyday evidence surveyors remember.

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9% ↑Likelihood to Recommend
50,000Caregivers
500Hospitals
2×Published in JONA
The Charge app — nurses sending sparks of recognition Journey to Magnet Excellence — American Nurses Credentialing Center
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The bar Magnet® sets

Hospitals pursuing ANCC Magnet Recognition® must demonstrate more than strong nursing outcomes — they must show that RNs are empowered to lead innovation, influence decision-making, strengthen professional practice, and improve the work environment.
The Magnet® Model

Excellence Isn't an Award.
It's Evidence.

Magnet® is a framework for nursing practice and a roadmap for organizations seeking nursing excellence. Every component asks the same question: can you show it happening, every day, at the bedside?

Component 01

Transformational Leadership

Nurse leaders who advocate loudly — and secure real resources for their teams' well-being.

Component 02

Empowerment

RNs with genuine influence over decisions, practice, and the environment they work in.

Component 03

Exemplary Professional Practice

Interprofessional teamwork and a practice environment nurses are proud to describe.

Component 04

New Knowledge, Innovations & Improvements

Evidence that nursing drives new ideas, technologies, and care delivery models forward.

From the Case Study

Three Criteria.
Real Launch Evidence.

The brief maps Charge launches directly to Magnet® application criteria — the kind of specific, dated, RN-led narratives that make a source of evidence easy to write.

NK6EO
Clinical RN involvement in adopting technology that leads to positive outcomes
Charge Health launched at an academic medical center psych hospital in November 2025. The ED unit saw patient satisfaction scores increase each month following the Charge launch.
— Charge Health Case Study Brief, 2026
TL5a
The CNO's role in securing organization-level resources for nurses' well-being
The CNO of a hospital in a large health system advocated to bring Charge to nurses across the entire system — transformational leadership with a paper trail.
— Charge Health Case Study Brief, 2026
NK7
Advancing practice through innovative ideas, technologies & care delivery models
A system-wide Charge launch generated from within the nursing team, collaborating with interdisciplinary partners to challenge the status quo and improve patient & system outcomes.
— Charge Health Case Study Brief, 2026
"A Magnet® journey is a culture journey. Charge reinforces everyday recognition, peer feedback, and visibility into rising leaders."
— Charge Health Case Study Brief
RN-Led Innovation Everyday Recognition Structural Empowerment Belonging at Scale Evidence Surveyors Remember A Culture Nurses Love
RN-Led Innovation Everyday Recognition Structural Empowerment Belonging at Scale Evidence Surveyors Remember A Culture Nurses Love
The Playbook

The Story Arc
Surveyors Remember

Charge gives Magnet® teams a practical, repeatable narrative — one your nurses author themselves.

01

RNs identify a culture gap

Nurses name what's missing — recognition, connection, belonging — before leadership has to.

Nurse-authored
02

Adopt a tech-enabled solution

The team brings in Charge: a 3-minute daily game that turns appreciation into social capital.

RN-led adoption
03

Engage interprofessional partners

Recognition crosses roles and units — pulling the whole care team into the practice.

Interdisciplinary
04

Track outcomes that matter

Experience, engagement, and retention data — tied to the launch, ready for your document.

Outcome-tied
Peer-Reviewed Proof

Recognition That Shows Up
in the Numbers

Charge Health has been published twice in The Journal of Nursing Administration.

0%
Lift in "Likelihood to Recommend"
Caregiver loyalty — the strongest predictor of retention.
0K
Caregivers
Nurses & hospital employees building social capital on Charge.
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Hospitals
From academic medical centers to community hospitals.
2×
Published in JONA
Peer-reviewed in The Journal of Nursing Administration.
Sparks of appreciation build social capital across patient experience, clinical excellence, safety & teamwork.
Journey to Magnet Excellence — American Nurses Credentialing Center
The 1-Page Brief

Bring This to Your
Magnet® Council

One page: the Magnet® connection, the criteria it maps to, and the outcomes behind it. Designed to be forwarded — to your MPD, your CNO, your shared governance council.

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Fifteen minutes. We'll walk the case study, map Charge to the criteria you're writing toward, and show you what launch looks like on a real unit.

Mapped to Your Application
NK6EO, TL5a, NK7 — see how launches become sources of evidence with dates, owners, and outcomes
Live in Weeks, Not Quarters
No implementation burden — evidence starts accruing from the first Spark your nurses send
A Culture Nurses Love
Recognition, peer feedback, and visibility into rising leaders — belonging your nurses can feel

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"This is the first thing I do every day. It's my spark." — Stacy Ramirez, RN
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