Rising Up: Retaining Experienced Nurses to Creatively Ease the Nursing Shortage

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

The purpose of this session is to address retention strategies that encourage acute care nurses to remain at the bedside. Of the 4.4 million RNs employed in the United States only 1.8 million work in hospitals. Understaffing, poor working conditions, the threat of violence, moral distress and musculoskeletal injury drive nurses away from the bedside. Creative strategies such as flexible scheduling, continuing professional development, nurse residency programs and hybrid nurse roles are explored.

Objectives

Describe the brain drain caused by high turnover in acute and critical care nursing.
Identify generational factors influencing engagement, loyalty and meaningful work.
Discuss creative strategies to retain both millennial and baby boomer nurses in direct patient care.

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.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.