patients, it's the pocket. You follow the money, and that's where it
goes. It goes into their pocket."
Spinney, the Texas RN, has seen similar strategies from manage-
ment to tout her facility's Magnet status. But the giant posters don't
come without a sense of irony.
"We have huge banners," Spinney told National Nurse, noting the
banners have stayed up even through construction projects at the
facility. "People are spending 12 or more hours in our emergency
department walking around a giant Magnet banner. It's vertical. It's
super tall. The irony is not lost on me."
"I don't think many people aside from management or adminis-
tration had appreciation for Magnet," Spinney said. "People thought
it was kind of a joke. Especially at the end of 2020 with everything
that happened and continued to happen beyond that, it was appar-
ent to people not even really union-oriented, it's kind of a farce."
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"I think that people don't
understand [Magnet's] really
not about nurses and patients.
It's really about executives, and
it's really about the employer.
It's a marketing tool, and
there's a massive lack
of transparency in what it is."
Lindsay Spinney, RN
