Keeping the Heart in Nursing: Meaningful Recognition to Strengthen, Support, and Sustain

Session Summary

Disengagement and burnout threaten the stability of today’s nursing workforce. This session presents a nurse-led, evidence-based recognition program that strengthens team culture and advances Healthy Work Environment outcomes. The project demonstrated improvement in all six components of the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT). Attendees explore practical strategies to design, implement, and sustain meaningful recognition initiatives to elevate nurse engagement and professional fulfillment.

Objectives

Describe the steps to develop and implement an evidence-based, nurse-led meaningful recognition program.
Analyze the impact of meaningful recognition on Healthy Work Environment outcomes and nurse engagement.
Identify strategies to sustain and spread recognition programs in diverse clinical settings.

Topics Recognition

Role Manager, Staff

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Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

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.