Creating Healthy Work Envionments: Part Three - Building Healthy Work Environments for Students and Practicing Nurses - Online Course

This webinar is the third webinar in the Creating Healthy Work Environments series. In this webinar, we will continue to explore various aspects of the work environment for nurses and nursing students. The content will be presented in short presentations and then we will have attendees engage with the presenters in breakout rooms to discuss their presentations.

Join us to learn more from the following presentations:

• Nurse Peer Support Program in an Academic Medical Center
• Alleviating Nurse Leader Burnout Through a Flexible Work Guideline: A Process Improvement Project
• SOS (Save Our Students) Wellness Initiative

This course will retire after 15th February 2027.

Learning Outcomes:
After participating in this course, learners will be able to:

• Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to recall the importance of nurse and nursing student well-being..

Speaker Bios:

Kelly Orchard, DNP, RN, CCRN
Kelly has been an ICU nurse for 7 years and recently graduated from Rush University's Adult-Gerontology Acute Care DNP Program. She worked as a nurse during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic and experienced firsthand the feelings of burnout, anxiety, and stress that nurses felt and continued to suffer from. Her experiences as a bedside nurse have made her passionate about wellness in the nursing profession. Throughout the past 3 years, Kelly has worked with the wellness center team at a large academic hospital to create and implement a nurse peer support program to help improve wellness and decrease burnout within the nursing community.

Tracey L. Nixon, MSN, RN
Tracey Nixon is the Chief Nursing Officer of University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics. She is a critical care nurse and has led nursing teams in capacity management, cardiovascular services, and critical care. In her role, she provides strategic and operational leadership for the Department of Nursing and leads enterprise-wide initiatives.

Danielle Fleming, MSN, RN, CEN, SCRN
Danielle Fleming currently teaches undergraduate nursing at the University of South Dakota. She has extensive nursing experience in critical care nursing, including neurological, medical, and surgical intensive care, as well as emergency and trauma. Certifications include Stroke Certified Registered Nurse and Certified Emergency Nurse. She is working towards a Ph.D. in Nursing Education at Walden University. She obtained a Nursing Education degree from the University of Texas, a BSN from Wayland Baptist University, and a BBA from Colorado Technical University. Research interests include communication and feedback, nursing student wellness, and stress management.