Meaningful Recognition for Nurses: Contemporary Practices for a Diverse Workforce

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Meaningful recognition, a critical element of a healthy work environment for nurses, promotes personal growth and contributes to increased job satisfaction. This session discusses results from a mixed-methods study exploring how today’s nurses perceive meaningful recognition in contemporary practice. Attendees gain foundational knowledge of the concept, as well as insight into how an increasingly diverse nursing workforce prefers to be recognized for their exceptional service and skill.

Objectives

Explain the concept of meaningful recognition and describe its role in the development of a healthy work environment.
Analyze the impact of demographic and nursing-related characteristics on individual preferences for different forms of recognition.
Describe the importance of applying a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework when designing nursing award and recognition programs.

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.