Establishing a nursing academic healthy work environment: An evolving process

The shortage of nurse faculty is a major barrier to addressing the growing nurse shortage. Despite recommendations to focus on creating a healthy work environment (HWE) in nursing academia, many nursing faculty attribute leaving the role to a negative workplace culture. Leadership at one school of nursing (SON) identified the need to detect workplace culture to guide planning aimed at building an HWE. The creation and implementation of a workplace culture survey are explained, and subsequent actions are explored. A workplace culture survey and targeted interventions have the potential to establish an HWE and should be considered by all SONs. (c) 2023 Organization for Associate Degree Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.