What Nurse Wellness Really Requires: A WenWell Framework for Capacity, Safety, and Connection

Nurse wellness is often treated as an individual responsibility, with a focus on self-care and resilience, while the shared conditions that shape stress, burnout, and sustainability are overlooked. This webinar introduces the WenWell Framework for Capacity, Safety, and Connection, a systems-informed approach that reframes nurse wellness as a shared responsibility across individuals, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and leadership. This session provides a clear framework for understanding how capacity limits, psychological safety, and connection affect nurse well-being. Participants will gain a shared language to support leadership, education, research, and workforce efforts focused on creating environments where nurses can practice sustainably.

Webinar Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• • Explain how capacity, psychological safety, and connection function as system-level determinants of nurse wellness beyond individual self-care strategies.
  • Apply the WenWell Framework as a conceptual lens to examine nurse wellness as a shared responsibility across individuals, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and leadership structures.
  • Identify implications of a shared-responsibility approach to nurse wellness for nursing education, leadership, and workforce sustainability.

Condition 5: Community Engagement – Strengthening Partnerships and Collective Impact

This session explores how academic nursing programs can establish and sustain meaningful partnerships with communities to advance health, enhance education, and prepare practice-ready graduates. Grounded in the AACN Ecosystem of Excellence in Academic Nursing, the session focuses on the Community Engagement Condition within the Operational Core, emphasizing that authentic, reciprocal relationships are essential to academic excellence and social impact.

Participants will examine how community-engaged partnerships enrich learning, support workforce development, and strengthen alignment between academic missions and public needs. The session highlights strategies for designing community-based experiences that build trust, promote shared learning, and address real-world health priorities—particularly those affecting under-resourced or historically underserved populations.

Attention will also be given to integrating technology, global perspectives, and accountability measures that ensure long-term impact and mutual benefit. By linking community partnerships to the Humanistic Conditions of connection, value, and purpose—and to AACN’s Access, Connection, and Engagement (ACE) vision—this session demonstrates how meaningful engagement bridges education, practice, and policy to create enduring pathways for excellence and collective well-being.

Workforce Wednesdays: Simulation in Nursing Education Interest Group

This group meets monthly to discuss simulation education in nursing in Minnesota. We help newer simulation specialists and strategize partnerships, innovations, and workforce needs.

Nursing Education Program Accreditation Interest Group

Rural Oncology Conference

We are pleased to invite you to attend the Rural Oncology Conference 2026, hosted by the Rural Cancer Institute, taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Rural Oncology Conference brings together healthcare professionals, researchers, advocates, and community leaders dedicated to improving cancer care and outcomes in rural and underserved communities. The 2026 conference will feature expert-led educational sessions, research presentations, and opportunities for collaboration focused on addressing disparities, advancing rural oncology research, and strengthening care delivery across rural settings.

Conference highlights include:

• • Evidence-based educational sessions led by national experts

  • Research and poster presentations focused on rural cancer care

  • Networking opportunities with peers and leaders in rural oncology

  • Discussions on advocacy, policy, and innovative models of care

  • 5 Continuing Education Credits by KU Area Health Education Center

Minnesota Nursing Workforce Summit