Magnet® & Pathway to Excellence®
Your Magnet evidence, built while nurses mentor.
Chronus helps Magnet® and Pathway to Excellence® health systems run structured nurse mentoring programs, with AI-powered matching, AI-generated Guided Conversations, and ANCC-aligned documentation that makes every redesignation cycle straightforward.
Why mentoring 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.
Four questions you should be able to answer without digging
- Who’s being mentored, and by whom?
- What are they working on?
- Are meetings actually happening?
- What’s changing as a result?
Easy when evidence is captured all along. Brutal when you’re reconstructing years of activity from inboxes and sign-in sheets.
Magnet® evidence dashboard
Your Magnet evidence, ready when you need it.
See who’s being mentored, their goals, a summary of the meetings and what changes as a result, in one Magnet-ready dashboard. No rebuilding years of activity before submission.
Built around Magnet® TL9 and Pathway EOP 6.2, 6.6 & 6.8
See it in action
Watch how mentoring becomes Magnet evidence.
AI that does the documenting
Evidence without one more task on a nurse’s plate.
MatchIQ® matching
Pairs start from a nurse’s goals, so every relationship has a documented purpose from day one.
AI Goal Setter
Turns a mentee’s intentions into clear development goals you can track and report on.
AI Notetaker
Captures meeting summaries automatically, so documentation builds as mentoring happens.
Guided Conversations
Structured, AI-generated prompts keep sessions focused on the outcomes appraisers look for.
Pathway to Excellence®
For Pathway, it’s about reach — every unit, every shift.
Pathway designation includes a confidential nurse survey, with at least 60% of eligible nurses required to participate. Chronus helps organizations make mentoring accessible across units, shifts, and career stages, creating meaningful experiences nurses can speak to firsthand.
For organizations pursuing Magnet in the future, Chronus provides a foundation for structured mentoring, measurable outcomes, and ongoing evidence collection.
| Pathway standard | What Chronus supports |
|---|---|
| EOP 6.2 | Transition to practice |
| EOP 6.6 | The mentoring environment (maps to Magnet® TL9) |
| EOP 6.8 | Emerging nurse leaders |
How we get you there
From your first program to a submission-ready package.
Step 1
Choose your focus
Pick the area for your first program: residency, clinical nurses, nurse leadership, and more.
Step 2
Design it with our experts
Backed by years of successful programs at Magnet® and Magnet with Distinction systems.
Step 3
Launch with built-in support
Guided Conversations, AI Goal Setter, and AI Notetaker keep every pair on track.
Step 4
Monitor on the dashboard
All activity feeds the dashboard automatically, so you see progress as it happens.
Step 5
Select, edit, print
Review eligible relationships, choose the ones to submit, edit the narrative as needed, and print.
The same mentoring that earns Magnet also protects your workforce. See the retention case for nurse mentoring
Magnet & Pathway FAQ
- Does Chronus satisfy ANCC Magnet® mentoring requirements?
- Chronus provides the platform infrastructure for the human mentoring relationships that satisfy ANCC Magnet Sources of Evidence. ANCC requires that mentors and mentees both be employed by the organization and that mentoring activity be documented. Chronus automates that documentation — logging sessions, tracking hours, recording outcomes, and generating reports aligned to ANCC submission requirements. For Magnet with Distinction applicants, Chronus also supports the innovation and outcome evidence required at that level.
- How does Chronus support the Pathway to Excellence® Program?
- 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.
