Gold Coast Health embarked on its journey to align with Magnet Standards in 2015 taking a whole of health service approach. Anita’s efforts were integral in this journey, from creating the business case to initiate this change at the health service through to 2020 where all the hospital(s) and community services across the healthservice achieved Magnet Recognition. As Australia’s first and only health service achieving this recognition at scale, Anita will document the challenges of introducing an entirely new way of working and its impact on workforce engagement, satisfaction, change resilience and evidence-based patient outcomes. She will highlight:

• How the health service managed change resistance to upskill and create a 100% graduate workforce foundation
• Bringing a cultural change to how frontline teams and leadership collaborate and problem solve to uphold a high standard of performance
• Aligning to 75 evidence-based indicators and measure of patient outcomes 
• The flow on impact on workforce satisfaction, retention and recruitment – why nurses love working at Gold Coast Health!