The Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) and dBase Media launched the “Emergency Nurses of the Future” video series to promote its new healthy nurse work environment initiative. The series highlights efforts to support emergency nurses in multiple ways – from developing healthier work environments and encouraging self-care to provide tools and resources that bolster patient care.
Watch the “Emergency Nurses of the Future” series trailer here.
“Emergency Nurses of the Future” video series presents the ENA’s overall emphasis on creating and maintaining a healthy nurse work environment through the association’s work for improving ED nurses’ mental health and well-being, collaborating with leaders on ways to strengthen ED cultures and heightening awareness and advocacy around issues that impact how emergency nurses work every day.
Once hurt by low morale and turnover, the Lake Charles Memorial Hospital in Louisiana is featured for the dramatic positive shift its emergency nurses helped drive to overcome internal and external challenges in the emergency department. Team-driven concepts for how nurses support one another and an emphasis on self-care are two examples of LCMH’s success highlighted in the video series.
“Emergency nurses do amazing work every day, but, especially in these stressful times, they need to know they’re supported. This video series offers a glimpse at some of the important ways ENA and its partners have shown success in developing ways to build strong emergency department environments that make it clear nurse health, well-being, and clinical skill development are priorities to success,” says ENA President Jenn Schmitz, MSN, EMT-P, CEN, CPEN, CNML, FNP-C, NE-BC. “Investing in nurses in these ways today creates a path for a stronger future, strengthening each ED’s commitment to delivering the best care possible to every patient.”
Besides showcasing ENA’s healthy nurse work environment initiative, the video series tells the story of how the association’s partners: Carson Tahoe Health, Elemeno Health, Eskenazi Health, and Mount Sinai Health, are using technology, teamwork, and attention to detail as investments in their nurses and, in the process, creating emergency departments where nurses want to work.
Watch the video series on the ENA YouTube channel.
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