Hire, Develop, Retain: Strategies to Improve Retention

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Retention is a challenge nursing teams commonly face, and evidence-based strategies to overcome it are often difficult to implement and sustain. Join this foundational session to learn mechanisms and strategies to implement in your departments to enhance hiring, development and retention practices. This is an opportunity for frontline nurses and nursing leaders to learn creative solutions to onboard, engage and retain nurses while improving quality of care and staff satisfaction.

Objectives

Describe ways to evaluate onboarding practices and local retention efforts.
Identify key components of the AACN Healthy Work Environment framework to improve staff development and retention.
Define strategies to implement and sustain on-boarding best practices and principles of the AACN Healthy Work Environment framework.

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.