Healthcare Innovation June 9, 2023
By Brenda Silva

AACN President looks to implement changes for healthy working environments

At the 2023 National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition held in May, AACN President, Amanda Bettencourt, Ph.D., APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, told attendees that the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) is going to take “bold steps” to implement the conditions necessary to create a Healthy Working Environment (HWE).

Echoing the theme of this year’s exposition, “Starting Now,” Bettencourt—who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing—said, “So, starting now, we’re taking bold steps toward implementing AACN’s HWE standards. One step will focus on implementing the standards in individual units. The other step focuses on them in...

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