Creating Healthy Work Environments in Critical Care Nursing, An Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America

In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editors Sarah Delgado and Kathryn Ann Connell bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Creating Healthy Work Environments in Critical Care Nursing. Top experts discuss how implementing and maintaining healthy work environments is foundational to addressing current, pervasive issues in critical care nursing, including poor quality of care, inappropriate staffing, workplace violence, medical/nursing errors, bias/ discrimination/ inequity, and threats to nurse wellbeing. Additional articles describe the roles of leaders, advanced practice nurses, staff nurses, contingent staff, nurses on alternate shifts, and nurse scientists in contributing to the health of the work environment.Contains 13 relevant, practice-oriented topics including the impact of the work environment on patients and families and care delivery in critical care; the critical care work environment and staffing: investing in the nursing workforce; critical care work environments and digital strategy; critical care work environments and equity; and moreProvides in-depth clinical reviews on creating healthy work environments in critical care nursing, offering actionable insights for clinical practicePresents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.…