Nursing, Intensive care unit, Riyadh Military Hospital

Magnet hospitals came into existence early in the twentieth century and have proved to be institutions with preferable actions on nursing staff job satisfaction. The magnetic environment in hospitals is usually a source for extensive survey and research activities based on interviews. The management of these magnetic hospitals emphasizes on two-way transfer of information with the staff, which is controlled by qualified executive nurses in the form of a decentralized structure according to Buchan (1999).