We are so Magnet!

This is a little late. You might say I've been recovering.



(Magnet Hospital designation call, 1 p.m. on August 16, 2010, Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital, Charleston, South Carolina - film credit to the fabulous Lee Bastian)

Like Three Years of Pregnancy

In October 2006, our hospital's nursing organization decided to seek designation as a Magnet Hospital from the American Nurse Credentialing Center. I volunteered to write the document that would provide the ANCC with evidence that we are in fact Magnet. Fortunately, Pennie (our VP of Nursing) decided that writing 1200+ pages - with attachments, mind you - was a job for more than one woman. Below you see me, Pennie, and Tanya (the other victim - uh, I mean writer), holding the four jump drives that carried our document - all 225 MB of it - off to the four appraisers last week.

The Proud Parents

Here are the beautiful flowers that appeared on my doorstep the next day with a thank you note from Pennie.


And now we wait to hear if the appraisers like our baby well enough to come visit.