The Nursing Crisis: Confronting Distress, Burnout, and Moral Injury
Webinar Details & Objectives
In a rapidly evolving health care work environment, nurses are participants in “the great resignation”. This webinar will address the current nursing workforce crisis in the U.S. and explore the factors accelerating it. We will discuss recent evidence on the mental health and ethical impact of COVID-19 on healthcare workers and explore the failures of protective frameworks to prevent burnout and moral suffering in nurses. As society grapples with the realities of the triple threat of confluent crises, the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, social unrest and violence and climate change, we explore the implications for academic nursing in building healthier work environments and a more resilient nursing workforce. Building upon the National Academy of Medicine Future of Nursing 2020-2030 report and the new AACN Essentials, we propose strategies for strengthening the fabric of nursing.
Speakers
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, RN, FAA
Professor of Nursing
Contributing Scholar, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Co-Chair, Johns Hopkins Healthcare Worker Protection COVID-19 Research Program
Tener Goodwin Veenema, PhD, MPH, MS, is a Contributing Scholar and Professor of Nursing at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. At the Center, she leads research projects to explore health systems optimization and healthcare worker protection during disasters and large-scale public health emergency events. She is editor of Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness for Chemical, Biological and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 4th Ed., the leading textbook in the field and developer of Disaster Nursing, a digital technology “App”. She is also an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security. An accomplished researcher, Dr. Veenema is a member of the National Academy of Medicine, and is an elected Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, and the Royal College of Surgeons, Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery, Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Veenema was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal of Honor (International Red Crescent) the highest international award in Nursing for her professional service in disasters and public health emergencies. She served as the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) 2017-18 Distinguished Nurse Scholar-in-Residence, and was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award and a lifetime achievement award from Columbia University School of Nursing.
Cynda Hylton Rushton, PhD, RN, FAAN
Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ehtics
Berman Institute of Bioethics/School of Nursing
Professor of Nursing and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University
Cynda Hylton Rushton is the Anne and George L. Bunting Professor of Clinical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics and School of Nursing, and co-chairs Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Ethics Committee and Consultation Service. In 2016, she co-led a national collaborative State of the Science Initiative: Transforming Moral Distress into Moral Resilience in Nursing and co-chaired the American Nurses Association professional issues panel that created A Call to Action: Exploring Moral Resilience Toward a Culture of Ethical Practice. She was a member of the National Academies of Medicine, Science and Engineering Committee that produced the report Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-being. She is a member of the American Nurses Association Center for Ethics & Human Rights Ethics Advisory Board and American Nurses Foundation Well-Being Initiative Advisory Board. She is the editor and author of Moral Resilience: Transforming Moral Suffering in Healthcare. Dr. Rushton is a Hastings Center fellow and chair of the Hastings Center Fellows Council and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member and nonmember schools.
Continuing Education Credits
CE credit will not be offered for this webinar.