Rising Together: Increasing Nurse Retention Through Meaningful Recognition

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

Meaningful recognition is one of six essential standards from AACN’s Healthy Work Environment (HWE). Nurses must be recognized for the value they bring to the work environment and to the organization they are in. This session will discuss the unit-based QI project team’s experiences and methods on improving Meaningful Recognition and offers participants means in implementing standards of a Healthy Work Environment.

Objectives

Summarize the six standards of a Healthy Work Environment, including use of the AACN Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool.
Apply methods used to improve meaningful recognition.
Evaluate lessons learned in the unit-based QI project’s experience in implementing HWE standard on “Meaningful Recognition”.

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.