Creating and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments (HWEs)

Webinar Summary

Creating and maintaining a healthy work environment using “AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments: A Journey to Excellence” helps nurses provide the highest quality of compassionate patient care while also being fulfilled at work. Survey data consistently shows that units implementing HWE standards outperform units that don’t use the standards in many important areas, including:

Better overall health of the work environment
Improved nurse staffing and retention
Less moral distress
Lower rates of workplace violence

This webinar will explore each of the six HWE standards and discuss how to conduct a free evaluation of your unit with the Healthy Work Environment Assessment Tool (HWEAT). The presentation will also feature a real-life case study illustrating how one unit used its HWEAT results to develop strategies that continue to improve the health of the workplace — and, ultimately, increase nurse retention rates.

Objectives

Describe HWE framework and standards
Identify components of the HWE Assessment Tool
Outline strategies for implementing and sustaining best practices and principles of the AACN HWE framework

Presenter

Heather Pena, MSN, RN, CCRN-CSC, CPPS

Heather Pena is strategic services associate, patient safety and quality improvement, heart services at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina. Her nursing career includes positions as both a staff nurse and assistant nurse manager for a cardiothoracic intensive care unit. Pena has presented at AACN’s National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI) on several topics related to quality improvement and patient safety, including multiple sessions on assessing and building healthy work environments using “AACN Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments: A Journey to Excellence.” She is a recipient of AACN’s Circle of Excellence award and has been honored with the North Carolina Organization of Nurse Leaders’ “Best Practice Award” in nursing research for her work on selectively pairing preceptors and newly hired nurses to enhance onboarding and orientation.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must attend/view/read the entire activity, read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes, and complete the associated evaluation to be awarded the contact hours or CERP. 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 1.00 contact hours.

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.

Disclosure

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.

AACN programming meets the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education contact hours for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting CE to fulfill continuing education requirements.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.