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Nurse Leadership Series | A Peer-to-Peer Support Program in Nursing: A Road to Well-being - On Demand

Designing the Future of Care: Bold Innovations in Action features organizations that are demonstrating how nurse leaders are driving transformation through creative care models and workforce strategies. Participants will explore the design principles, leadership practices, and measurable outcomes that underpin these initiatives. Each conversation invites participants to exchange ideas and consider how similar strategies can be adapted and scaled within their own systems.

Discover how UCLA Health is transforming nurse well-being with a trauma-informed, peer-to-peer support model that strengthens emotional resilience and retention. This model, built on evidence-based practices, leadership engagement, and multidisciplinary collaboration and aims to create a network of colleagues prepared to provide emotional first aid to their peers after challenging or traumatic events at work.

Target Audience

Nurses
Other Healthcare Professionals

Learning Objectives

Describe the benefit of peer-to-peer support programs in healthcare settings, particularly for the nursing workforce.
Identify key components needed to create and build infrastructure for piloting a peer-to-peer support program in a healthcare setting.

Course summary

Available credit:

1.00 ANCC
1.00 General CE - Attendance

Course opens:

04/22/2026

Course expires:

04/21/2027

On Demand

United States

FACULTY & PLANNERS

Faculty

Melissa Powell, PhD, MS, RN, CPHQ

Postdoctoral Fellow

UCLA Health

Matthew Helton, LSSBB, CCMP

Lean Specialist

UCLA Health

Patrick Loney, RN, BSN, MBA, NEA-BC

Chief Nursing Officer

UCLA Health

Planning Committee

Hanna Lakew

Director, Member Networks

Vizient, Inc.

Barbara Jo Seymour, DNP, RN, NE-BC

AVP, Member Connections

Vizient, Inc.

Marilu Kelly, MSN, RN, NPD-BC, CHCP

Director, Continuing Education

Vizient, Inc.

Kim Bentley, CHCP

CE Programs Manager

Vizient, Inc.

DISCLOSURE

As an accredited provider of continuing education, Vizient, Inc. is dedicated to ensuring this activity presents learners with only accurate, balanced, scientifically justified recommendations, and is free from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all planners, faculty, and others in control of the educational content have disclosed the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with ineligible companies within the past 24 months.

Ineligible companies – those companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

It is Vizient’s policy that owners and employees of ineligible companies, and any individuals who refuse to disclose the absence or existence of financial relationships with any ineligible companies are disqualified from participating as planners or faculty.

Statement of Content Validity

Vizient, Inc. educational activities are intended to assist healthcare teams advance their professional responsibilities in accordance with the definition of continuing education. It is the policy of Vizient, Inc. to review and ensure that all content and recommendations for patient care within accredited CE is evidenced-based, based on current science and clinical reasoning while ensuring the content is fair and balanced. All recommendations must conform to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Vizient, Inc. does not permit accredited continuing education if it advocates for unscientific approaches to diagnosis or therapy, or if the education promotes recommendations, treatment, or manners of practicing healthcare that are determined to have risks or dangers that outweigh the benefits or are known to be ineffective in the treatment of patients.

FDA Off-Label Use

Faculty presenters are also expected to disclose any discussion of (1) off-label or investigational uses of FDA approved commercial products or devices or (2) products or devices not yet approved in the United States.

Disclaimer

The education provided through this activity is for continuing education purposes only. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty/presenters and do not necessarily reflect the views of Vizient, Inc.

Disclosure Statements

Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships

None of the planners, faculty, or others in a position to control content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

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