Empowering Nurses: How Professional Governance and Healthy Work Environments Transformed a Culture

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Common challenges in healthcare today include decreased nurse engagement, patient satisfaction and quality of care. Learn how executive nurse leaders and clinical nurses in a critical access hospital implemented a professional governance model that integrated AACN’s Healthy Work Environment Standards and positively influenced key outcomes. By prioritizing nurse autonomy and a just culture, the model provided positive practice environments for nurses in high- and low-acuity settings.

Objectives

Review evidence and best practices for creating cultures of empowerment in which nurses exhibit ownership, accountability, and leadership.
Describe strategies for designing a professional practice model which integrates the Healthy Work Environment Standards (HWE).
Analyze nurse and patient outcomes of a novel professional practice model based on HWE standards.

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 {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

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.

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Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.