On June 3 and 4, 2021, the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action assembled key opinion leaders, experts, and change makers across the fields of health care, nursing and health equity. The goal: Build actions plans to operationalize the National Academy of Medicine’s Future of Nursing 2020 2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity report. Below are the action plans related to Recommendation #3. The draft workplans are examples of how the recommendation may be addressed.

All Action Plans

Recommendation #3: PROMOTING NURSES’ HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
By 2021, nursing education programs, employers, nursing leaders, licensing boards, and nursing organizations should initiate the implementation of structures, systems, and evidence- based interventions to promote nurses’ health and well-being, especially as they take on new roles to advance health equity.

Sub-Recommendations

3.1 Nursing education programs: Integrate content on nurses’ health and well-being into their programs.

3.2 Nursing education programs: Create mechanisms to protect students most at risk for behavioral health challenges.

3.3 Employers: Provide sufficient human and material resources to enable nurses to provide high-quality care effectively and safely.

3.4 Employers: Establish a culture of physical and psychological safety.

3.5 Employers: Create mechanisms to protect nurses from retaliation.

3.6 Employers: Support diversity, equity, and inclusion across the nursing workforce.

3.7 Employers: Prioritize and invest in health interventions for nurses, including reward programs.

3.8 Employers: Establish and standardize processes that strengthen nurses’ contribution to improving design and delivery of care and decision making.

3.9 Employers: Reduce stigma associated with mental and behavioral health treatment for nurses.

3.10 Employers: Collect systematic data to better understand the health and well- being of the nursing workforce.