American Nurses Foundation Gratitude Podcast -Creating an Organizational Plan for Gratitude

American Nurses Foundation Gratitude Podcast - Creating an Organizational Plan for Gratitude, with Stacey Aggabao, MBA MSN RN NEA-BC CEN CTACC

Welcome to a special series on Gratitude brought to you by the American Nurses Foundation through the generous support of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Disaster Recovery Fund.

In this special series we will explore how developing gratitude practices can significantly improve your health and well-being, while also improving your work, safety, relationships, self-care, growth, and joy.

The American Nurses Foundation has undertaken this work as part of its Well-Being Initiative, which supports nurses’ mental health through the pandemic and beyond. Decades of research have shown that practicing gratitude is highly effective in promoting physical and psychological health, both at the individual and organizational levels. This podcast series builds up previous work conducted by the American Nurses Foundation in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley.

Gratitude Practice for Nurses toolkit was designed to create easy-to-implement evidence based practices.

In this episode, Stacey Aggabao, Service Director at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, Ca., and I talk about what it means to be an advocate and champion for gratitude in building an organizational strategic plan. We will discuss how gratitude has transformed Stacey as a leader and how to sustain these gratitude practices in complex organizational environments.

For more information about the Toolkit and other resources:

Well-Being Initiative: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/work-environment/health-safety/disaster-preparedness/coronavirus/what-you-need-to-know/the-well-being-initiative/

Gratitude Practice for Nurses Toolkit: https://www.nursingworld.org/~4a22c8/globalassets/covid19/gratitude_nurses_toolkit.pdf

Gratitude Practice for Nurses Implementation Guide: https://www.nursingworld.org/~4a22d0/globalassets/covid19/implementation_guide.pdf

Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/

Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Disaster Recovery Fund: https://disasterphilanthropy.org/funds/cdp-disaster-recovery-fund/