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

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

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

The Nurse Planner has determined that no individuals with the ability to control content of this activity have relevant relationships with ineligible companies.

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Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.