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MAGNET & PATHWAY TO EXCELLENCE

When nursing relationships align, excellence follows.

Chronus helps Magnet-certified and Pathway to Excellence health systems run structured nursing mentoring programs — with AI-powered matching, AI-generated Guided Conversations, and ANCC-aligned documentation that makes every redesignation cycle straightforward.

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WHY IT MATTERS FOR MAGNET

Mentoring is not optional for Magnet — it’s required

The ANCC Magnet Recognition Program requires health systems to demonstrate structured mentoring programs, documented professional development infrastructure, and evidence of nursing excellence across five model components. Every Magnet organization must prove it — and prove it again at every redesignation cycle.

The ANCC is explicit: the organization must employ the mentor and demonstrate that mentoring is occurring within the applicant organization. Mentoring must be documented and connected to professional practice outcomes. Chronus gives your team the platform to run these programs at scale and generate the evidence your appraisers need.

Average cost to replace one bedside nurse

Retaining just 2 – 3 nurses covers the base cost of Chronus. Every nurse retained after that is pure return – and more experienced nurses at the bedside means greater consistency of care.

Magnet redesignation cycle

The systems that struggle at redesignation start documenting six months before the deadline. The ones that breeze through started building infrastructure two years out.

Magnet hospitals choosing structured mentoring

Every one of them is required to document mentoring activity for ANCC. The question is not whether to have a program — it’s what platform runs it.

PROGRAMS & CAPABILITIES

Everything your nurses need — in one platform

From nurse residency mentoring and clinical ladder advancement to ANCC-aligned documentation and workshop management — Chronus consolidates what currently lives in three separate systems into one.

All 4 nursing levels

Smarter matches in less time – let AI do the heavy lifting.

Structured mentoring programs for every nursing level — Clinical Nurse, Nurse Manager, Nurse Leader, and CNO — with the documented professional development evidence ANCC Magnet requires.

Structural Empowerment

Nursing Leadership Pipeline

Succession planning and leadership mentoring for charge nurses, managers, and director candidates — with visibility into advancement across every unit and facility.

Structural Empowerment

AI-Generated Guided Conversations

Structured mentoring programs for every level — Clinical Nurse, Nurse Manager, Nurse Leader, and CNO — meeting the ANCC Magnet requirement for documented evidence of professional development at all four nursing levels and across all specialties.

REDESIGNATION READY

ANCC-Aligned Documentation

Every mentoring interaction is automatically logged. Generate program participation reports, unit dashboards, and Magnet Sources of Evidence documentation with one click — no spreadsheets, no last-minute scrambles.

All 4 nursing levels

eLearning & Workshop Management

Load your SCORM-compliant courses and manage workshop registrations, attendance, and completions alongside your mentoring programs — one platform, one report for your Magnet submission.

EnTERPRISE SCALE

Multi-Facility System Dashboards

System-level visibility across all hospitals — compare participation rates, relationship health, and outcome trends by facility, with deep HRIS integrations for Workday and SAP SuccessFactors.

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IN THEIR WORDS

What Magnet nursing leaders say

Adding a mentoring component has really helped with our goal of retaining nurses and being able to promote them into leadership.

Nursing leader  ·  Magnet-certified health system  ·  Chronus customer

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Questions from Magnet nursing leaders

Chronus provides the platform infrastructure for the human mentoring relationships that satisfy ANCC Magnet Sources of Evidence. The ANCC requires that both mentors and mentees be employed by the organization and that mentoring activity be documented. Chronus automates all of that documentation — logging sessions, tracking hours, recording outcomes, and generating reports aligned with ANCC submission requirements. For Magnet with Distinction applicants, Chronus also supports the innovation and outcome-evidence documentation required at that tier.

Pathway to Excellence shares many of the same structural requirements as Magnet — formal professional development programs, mentoring infrastructure, and documented nurse engagement. Chronus supports all Pathway to Excellence criteria related to nursing professional development, shared governance, and workforce well-being. Many organizations use Chronus on their Pathway journey as the infrastructure they’ll carry forward into their eventual Magnet application.

Yes. If your organization has SCORM-compliant eLearning courses you want to offer nurses, Chronus can host and deliver them alongside your mentoring programs — tracking completions and reporting activity in the same platform. Chronus also handles workshop and event management: registrations, attendance tracking, reminders, and completion reports. Your NPD team gets a single platform — and a single report — for all professional development activity.

Where competitors lead with services and bolt on technology, Chronus delivers both — a purpose-built platform backed by the expertise to run it. “Chronus is an enterprise-grade platform with AI-powered matching (MatchIQ®), AI-generated Guided Conversations built specifically for nursing career stages, a proprietary Purpose Assessment that surfaces each nurse’s intrinsic motivators before matching, and deep HRIS integrations with Workday and SAP SuccessFactors. The result: better matches, more purposeful mentoring sessions, and automated documentation that makes redesignation straightforward.

Common challenges include: matching mentors and mentees effectively at scale, maintaining participant engagement throughout the program, securing adequate time commitment from busy mentors, measuring ROI and program impact, and avoiding the “set it and forget it” approach. Mentoring software addresses many of these challenges by automating matching, providing guided conversation tools, and delivering real-time analytics.

Yes. Chronus is purpose-built for health systems operating across multiple facilities. System-level dashboards give nursing leadership visibility across all hospitals simultaneously — comparing participation rates, mentor-mentee relationship health, and outcome trends by facility. Cross-facility mentoring is also supported, which is particularly valuable for system-wide leadership development and specialty nursing tracks.

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