Adapting Healthy Work Environment Standards in an Intensive Care Unit to Promote Staff Well-Being

Activity Summary

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) identified six Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments (HWEs) to improve patient outcomes, increase nurse engagement and lower burnout. First, results from a pilot group completing the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) in 2022 reveal high levels of burnout. Next, leadership uses the Mini-Z and the HWE Assessment Tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategies on staff well-being. In this presentation, the facilitator relies on panel members to describe the results of using the tools and the implementation strategies to promote each of the six standards.

Objectives

To explain staff burnout and well-being levels before adopting the healthy work environment standards.
To identify strategies to promote the AACN Healthy Work Environment standards to improve patient outcomes.
Analyze the results of the HWE Assessment Tool and improvement opportunities to improve staff well-being.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Criteria for Awarding Contact Hours

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation. 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.

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Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.