Introduction: For hospitals to reach their peak in the healthcare world, they must work to earn a prestigious credential from the American Nurse's Credentialing Center (The Truth About Nursing). To receive this credential, hospitals must meet a number of criteria that will require a lot of work and reform within the hospital itself. To receive magnet status, hospitals must express the fourteen forces of magnetism along with a rigorous list of requirements (Flores, 2007). Magnet status, along with everything, has its benefits along with its problems. This credential has been studied extensively and some research believes that a few things should be changed for magnet hospitals to be the best they can be. Finally, there is no doubt that magnet status is of great value for the way it transforms hospitals from large to larger. What is Magnet Status? Magnet Status is a credential in organizational recognition of nursing superiority (Nursing World). It is awarded to hospitals that have met requirements designed to determine the quality and strength of their nursing care. (Nursing World) The Magnet Status award is given to hospitals by the American Nurses' Credentialing Center, which is an associate of the American Nurses Association (The Truth About Nursing, 2012). This award was established in 1990 as a way to recognize hospitals that provide exceptional nursing care (Hopkins Medicine). Magnet status (Hopkins Medicine). Magnet status is not easy, so hospitals have to work very hard to meet the stringent requirements (Hawke, 2003). card ......Rican Nurses Credentialing Center. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nursecredentialing.org/MagnetDrenkard, K. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.americannursetoday.com/article.aspx?id=6378Flores, S. (2007.). Retrieved from http://www.luhs.org/feature/nursing/Images/Nurse_News vol1_issue 1.pdfGaguski, M. (2006). State of the magnet: what is the attraction?. ONS News, 21(3), 1-6.Hawke, M. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nsna.org/Portals/0/Skins/NSNA/pdf/Career_Jan04_Hawke.pdfJohns Hopkins Medicine. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/nursing/about/magnet.htmlMueller, C. (2002). Demonstrate excellence, achieve magnet status. Creative Nursing, 8(2), 7.Summers, S. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.truthaboutnursing.org/faq/magnet.htmlTurkel, M. C. (2004). Magnet Status: Evaluate, pursue, and achieve nursing excellence. Marblehead, Mass.: HCPro.