“Working in a Healthy Environment”
Healthy Work Environment is described as – productive, able to give quality care, satisfying and able to meet personal needs.
Attributes of a satisfying and productive work environment from the Perspective of Staff Nurses:
- Work with other nurses who are clinically competent
- Collegial nurse-physician and interdisciplinary relationships
- Autonomy, clinical decision making
- Supportive nurse managers
- Control of nursing practice
- Support for education
- Perception that staffing is adequate
- Culture in which concern for patients is paramount
Standards of a Healthy Work Environment: Perceptive of American Association of Critical Care Nurses
- Skilled communication – nurses must be as proficient in communication skills as they are in clinical skills
- True Collaboration – Nurses must be relentless in pursuing and fostering true collaboration
- Effective Decision Making – Nurses must be valued and committed partners in making policy, directing, and evaluating clinical care and leading organizational operations