title: Empowering a healthy practice environment.
abstract: This article provides frontline nurses a tool kit so they can advocate a healthy practice environment. The healthy nurse, healthy work hours, job satisfaction, adequate sleep, power naps at work, and balancing family/work are discussed. The overweight nurse, nurse fatigue, compassion fatigue, shift work sleep disorder, and role strain are discussed as barriers to a healthy practice environment. Case reports with analysis and recommendations are discussed to overcome these barriers. Resources are presented for frontline nurses to develop a tool kit for transforming their environment to a healthy practice environment and to empower them to become healthy nurses.
authors: School of Nursing, Austin Peay State University, McCord Room 281, PO Box 4658, Clarksville, TN 37044, USA. Electronic address: politepets@msn.com.
authors: Jodi
authors: J
authors: Kushner
authors: School of Nursing, Austin Peay State University, McCord Room 281, PO Box 4658, Clarksville, TN 37044, USA.
authors: Tasha
authors: T
authors: Ruffin
mesh_terms: D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000517:prevention & control; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States; D014937:Work / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Compassion fatigue; Family and work balance; Healthy nurse; Healthy work hours; Naps at work; Nurse fatigue; Role conflict; Shift work sleep disorder