Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2025
Abstract
Joy in Work emerges when nurses are empowered to lead meaningful change. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Joy in Work Framework guides organizations to empower nurses to make small, team-led changes to restore engagement, reduce burnout, and improve quality. We used the IHI framework and focused on the cultural imperative and measurable outcomes through practical tools and leadership strategies. A statistically significant overall improvement in first-year provider turnover and Quality Metric Scores before and after the Joy in Work program implementation. Empowering nurses as everyday leaders of change fosters a resilient, thriving workforce and safer patient care.
Language
English
Publication Title
Nurse Leader
Rights
© 2025 The Authors. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial copying and redistribution of the material in any medium or format, provided the original work is not changed in any way and is properly cited.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Recommended Citation
Dolansky, Mary A., "Joy in Work: Leading Change" (2025). Faculty Scholarship. 1542.
https://commons.case.edu/facultyworks/1542
Manuscript Version
Final Publisher Version