Session Summary
AACN’s 2005 Healthy Work Environment (HWE) initiative identifies six evidence-based standards reflective of a healthy work environment (HWE), using the validated Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT) to measure their validity. As of 2024, the renamed HWEAT-Team boasts greater sensitivity and specificity. Finally, after a multisite study in 2024/2025, the current tool reflects reliability and validity testing for interprofessional use. In this session, we present results and discuss how these data can be applied to practice.
Objectives
- Describe the importance of healthy work environments.
- Identify how differences in role and generation affect one’s own work environment.
- Outline how the HWEAT-Team supports team-based evaluation to target improvement initiatives.
Topics
Healthy Work Environment
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
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Refund Policy
Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.