Excellence Series: Nursing Recognition and Reward

Course overview

Nurses are under a tremendous amount of pressure in the workplace. They work in a high-stress, high-stakes profession, and perform work that is physically and emotionally demanding for long hours. Researchers have found that a healthy work environment, along with finding meaning and joy in one's work, is fundamental to decreasing nurse burnout and traumatic stress and preventing nurses from leaving their jobs. Creating a healthy workplace and ensuring that nurses derive pleasure from their jobs require showing them appreciation for who they are and meaningful recognition for a job well done. This course provides nurses with definitions of appreciation and meaningful recognition, examples of both, and explanations of how they can best be provided for professional nurses.