AACN’s Healthy Work Environment initiative is a comprehensive effort to engage nurses, nurse employers and the nursing profession in recognizing the urgency and importance of working together to improve the environments in which nurses work. AACN recommends the following resources in support of creating healthier work environments.
Healthy Work Environments – Related Resources From AACN
Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool
The Web-based AACN Healthy Work Environment Team Assessment tool will allow you and your team to collectively measure your work environment's current health against the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments.
Healthy Work Environments – Related Resources From Other Organizations
HWE Toolkit
This evidence-based toolkit was developed by Alissa Samoya, DNP, RN, CPN, based on the AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments: A Journey to Excellence. It is meant to be used in conjunction with organizational procedures and leaders’ knowledge of current practice to improve the work environment of nurses.
Healthy Work Environments Standards Poster Available for Download and Self-printing
This poster, designed by John F. Dixon, RN, MSN, NE-BC, director of The Center for Nursing Education and Research at Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas, Texas), is being generously shared by this facility. We encourage you to have it printed and post it in your unit.
Keith Harrell, Attitude is Everything Attitudes, whether positive or negative, have the power to impact the success of an organization or an individual.
TeamSTEPPSTM: National Implementation
TeamSTEPPSTM is an evidence-based teamwork system aimed at optimizing patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills among health care professionals. TeamSTEPPS was developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The following books have been approved by AACN as part of the Healthy Work Environments initiative. Click on the title to access the sites where these books can be purchased.
On January 26, 2005, AACN unveiled "Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments" at a national briefing in Washington, D.C. View archived webcast of this event. It will take 20–30 seconds for the webcast to begin.