Save the Date - Developing A Healthy Work Environment for Correctional Nurses
Webinar/Online
Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 1:00pm ET - 2:00pm ET
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Topic
Correctional nursing; healthy work environment
Credits Offered
This event offers
1.0 CNE credit
to attendees.
Accreditation Info:
Florida Board of Nursing.
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The benefits of a healthy work environment have been well documented in the literature and include increased morale, job satisfaction, increased retention, lower turnover and labor costs as well as improved quality of care. However, these benefits do not occur by accident. Intensive planning, managerial support of professional nursing practice, strong physician-nurse collaboration, nurse participation in decision making and participative management are all key factors in promoting and sustaining a healthy work environment (Aiken, Clarke, & Sloane, 2002; Aiken, Clarke, Sloane, Lake, & Cheney, 2008; Bogaert, Clarke, Vermeyen, Meulemans, & Heyning, 2009; Laschinger, Shamian, & Thomson, 2001; Nantsupawat, et al., 2011; Patrician, Shang, & Lake, 2010).
This presentation will discuss the conditions that must be present for a healthy work environment to flourish, the responsibilities of leadership and direct care staff for creating and sustaining a healthy work environment and strategies for creating such an environment.
Speakers

Professor Emeritus, Winston-Salem State University
Dr. Dennis Sherrod serves as Professor and Forsyth Medical Center Endowed Chair of Recruitment & Retention in the Division of Nursing at Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC where he teaches primarily in the Advanced Nurse Educator MSN and Family Nurse Practitioner MSN and DNP programs. He has more than thirty-five years of nursing experience and over twenty years of recruitment and retention expertise. Dennis served as president of the North Carolina Nurses Association, the Center for American Nurses, the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Alumni Association and national conference chair of Nursing Management's National Recruitment & Retention Conference. He currently serves on the editorial board of the Nursing Management Journal and the Journal of Best Practices in Health Professions Diversity: Research, Education and Policy. He’s published numerous books and articles, speaks nationally and internationally and brings a common sense approach to nurse recruitment, retention, and education issues.
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