NUR 444 CH 12 REVIEW QUESTIONS
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Guidelines for Building a Healthy Work Environment ✅-American Nurses Association
(ANA)
•Has developed numerous initiatives, position statements, and brochures focusing on
what is part of a healthy work environment
•Developed the Nurses' Bill of Rights in 2001, which
•Helps nurses to improve their work environment and ensure their ability to provide safe,
quality patient care
•Outlines seven premises regarding necessary workplace expectations for sound
professional nursing practice across the United States
•Is a statement of professional rights and not a legal document
-American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
•Identified eight hallmarks of a work environment that fosters professional nursing
practice in all professional practice settings and in all types of professional nursing
practice
•Developed Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments in
2005:
•Skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate
staffing, meaningful recognition, authentic leadership
-American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
•Developed the AONL Guiding Principles: Mitigating Violence in the Workplace in 2014,
including
•Recognized that violence can and does happen anywhere.
•Healthy work environments promote positive patient outcomes.
•Everyone in the organization is accountable for upholding foundational behavior
standards.
•Developed the AONL Guiding Principles: Mitigating Violence in the Workplace in 2014,
•Addressing workplace violence may increase the effectiveness of nursing practice and
patient care
•Barriers to safe patient handling and mobility ✅-Lack of a "no lift" policy, adequate
lifting equipment, and adequate space on patient care units
-Lack of equipment, decreased staffing levels, and the architecture of the environment
-Nurses who do not report their injuries
•Ensuring safe patient handling and mobility ✅-Implementation of safe patient handling
and
mobility programs
AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Guidelines for Building a Healthy Work Environment ✅-American Nurses Association
(ANA)
•Has developed numerous initiatives, position statements, and brochures focusing on
what is part of a healthy work environment
•Developed the Nurses' Bill of Rights in 2001, which
•Helps nurses to improve their work environment and ensure their ability to provide safe,
quality patient care
•Outlines seven premises regarding necessary workplace expectations for sound
professional nursing practice across the United States
•Is a statement of professional rights and not a legal document
-American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN)
•Identified eight hallmarks of a work environment that fosters professional nursing
practice in all professional practice settings and in all types of professional nursing
practice
•Developed Standards for Establishing and Sustaining Healthy Work Environments in
2005:
•Skilled communication, true collaboration, effective decision making, appropriate
staffing, meaningful recognition, authentic leadership
-American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL)
•Developed the AONL Guiding Principles: Mitigating Violence in the Workplace in 2014,
including
•Recognized that violence can and does happen anywhere.
•Healthy work environments promote positive patient outcomes.
•Everyone in the organization is accountable for upholding foundational behavior
standards.
•Developed the AONL Guiding Principles: Mitigating Violence in the Workplace in 2014,
•Addressing workplace violence may increase the effectiveness of nursing practice and
patient care
•Barriers to safe patient handling and mobility ✅-Lack of a "no lift" policy, adequate
lifting equipment, and adequate space on patient care units
-Lack of equipment, decreased staffing levels, and the architecture of the environment
-Nurses who do not report their injuries
•Ensuring safe patient handling and mobility ✅-Implementation of safe patient handling
and
mobility programs
