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feeding club has provided support and education to encourage mothers of premature infants to participate in the nutrition and feeding of their babies. Under the direction of Paula Meier, RN, DNSc, director of the Rush Neonatal Intensive Care Lactation Program, this program has become a national model. Mothers who deliver preterm at Rush are encouraged to become part of the child's health care team by expressing their milk -- and 95 to 97 percent of them do, as opposed to 35 to 40 percent nationwide.

Magnet status is also likely to help Rush maintain or lower its already low nursing vacancy rate. Other hospitals with Magnet status have been able to reduce their vacancy rate by 50 percent or more. Hancock believes that Magnet status will impress nurses who are interviewing for jobs and have the luxury of choosing where to work in a field with large vacancy rates.

"Even before we were awarded Magnet status, there were nurses who came here to interview because they had heard we were pursuing Magnet accreditation," she said. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing publishes a handout of recommended criteria for student nurses who are interviewing for their first jobs and the questions are similar to those addressed in the Magnet application, so going through this process has also helped us address questions that potential applicants will have," she added.

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Contact: Chris Martin
cmartin@rsh.net
312-942-7820
Rush University Medical Center
4-Jun-2002

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