Establishing a nursing academic healthy work environment: An evolving process

Abstract

The shortage of nurse faculty is a major barrier to addressing the growing nurse shortage. Despite recommendations to focus on creating a healthy work environment (HWE) in nursing academia, many nursing faculty attribute leaving the role to a negative workplace culture. Leadership at one school of nursing (SON) identified the need to detect workplace culture to guide planning aimed at building an HWE. The creation and implementation of a workplace culture survey are explained, and subsequent actions are explored. A workplace culture survey and targeted interventions have the potential to establish an HWE and should be considered by all SONs.