Creating and Sustaining a Healthy Work Environment

Question 1

What does a healthy work environment look like?

Answer 1

Increased work satisfaction, increased retention and recruitment, improved patient outcomes, supports meaningful work, enhances recruitment and retention.

Question 2

What does an unhealthy work environment look like?

Answer 2

Creates stress among nurses, lacks civility and respect, hinders interpersonal relationships.

Question 3

What are the six parts to a healthy work environment?

Answer 3

Authentic leadership, solid communication, team collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate staffing, meaningful recognition.

Question 4

What is the goal of a safe work enviornment

Answer 4

Preventing risks, violence, or psychological harm to staff.

Question 5

How can physical harm happen in a work place?

Answer 5

Unsafe patient handling, lifting.

Question 6

What is nurse fatigue?

Answer 6

Impaired function resulting from physical labor or mental exertion.

Question 7

How can we reduce nurse fatigue?

Answer 7

Seek balance between personal and professional lives, arrive at work well rested and alert, adopt evidence-based fatigue countermeasures and personal strategies to reduce risk of fatigue.

Question 8

What are the two highest nonphysical workplace violence offenses?

Answer 8

Bullying and incivility.

Question 9

Nurse to nurse violence differences?

Answer 9

Lateral (peer to peer)
Vertical (higher to lower)

Question 10

What are some strategies to prevent workplace violence?

Answer 10

Examine, increase, model and promote, support, ensure, and deal.

Question 11

Emergency response plans?

Answer 11

Internal disaster: active shooter
External disaster: bus accident.
Natural disaster: wildfires.