Session Summary
Creating and maintaining a healthy work environment is imperative for achieving excellence within any system. In this session, a panel of nurse leaders and bedside nurses discuss their ongoing journey from initial rebuilding after COVID though their current situation as a Beacon Award-winning ICU. Examples of our engagement strategies, interventions, results and obstacles are provided. Participants are able to better understand the AACN Healthy Work Force Strategies and leave with practical examples of their implementation.
Objectives
- Apply the AACN Healthy Work Environment guidelines and understand their connection to the Beacon Award process.
- Explain how the Healthy Work Environment model can be applied to set goals and improve identified issues within the unit.
- Analyze case studies from our ICU, highlighting how unit improvements can be applied to our Beacon application.
Topics
Healthy Work Environment, Beacon
Population
Adult
Role
Staff
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Successful Completion
Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.
Accreditation
The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for 1.00 contact hours.
Disclosure
Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.
Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity.
Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.
Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.
Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.