Session Summary
Join the researchers leading AACN's 2025 national Healthy Work Environments survey for this foundational, interactive session. Explore the latest findings on how acute and critical care work environments measure up across the six HWE Standards and examine new trends since 2021. Through audience polling and open discussion, participants connect national data to their own settings and generate actionable ideas for advocacy. Leave equipped with evidence and strategies to champion healthier workplaces where nurses thrive and patients receive exceptional care.
Objectives
- Describe the rationale for a national HWE survey, as well as the evolution of past approaches.
- Identify which standards are more—or less—helpful since the last survey.
- Translate the latest HWE survey results into actionable ideas for advocacy to improve work environments for all.
Topics
Healthy Work Environment
Role
Manager, Educator, APRN, Staff, Researcher
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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.