CE Module: Return on Investment of Workplace Wellness: Evidence From a Long-Term Care Company

This issue of Workplace Health & Safety contains a Continuing Nursing Education Module for 1.0 contact hour of continuing nursing education credit will be awarded by AAOHN upon successful completion of the posttest and evaluation.

A certificate will be awarded when the following requirements are met by the participant: (1) Participant logs on to the AAOHN LMS website at www.aaohn.org/education/online-learning-center and enrolls in the course ($10 members; $15 non-members); (2) The completed posttest and course evaluation are entered online at http://www.aaohn.org by February 2023; (3) A score of 75% (6 correct answers) is achieved by the participant.

Upon completion of this lesson, the occupational health nurse will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of workplace wellness programs as a strategy to improve workers’ health and wellbeing while reducing health care and organizational costs.

• Identify the return-on-investment of workplace wellness programs in small companies.

The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is an Approved Provider of continuing nursing education by the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, Inc. is additionally approved as a CNE provider by the California Board of Registered Nursing (#CEP9283).

Contact hours received for successful completion of the posttest and evaluation may be used for relicensure, certification, and re-certification.

1. Which of these factors influences businesses and organizations when establishing workplace wellness programs?

2. Presence of work-site gyms and pools

3. Improve health of workers and productivity

4. A and C

The focus on workers’ overall health is important because:

A health workforce is a happy workforce

Workers’ turnover and costs related to health insurance claims are reduced

Union rates will increase if injuries are up

The purpose of this study was to evaluate how much a workplace wellness program costs in a small not-for-profit company that has no on-site exercise facilties.

True

False

The Logic Model was chosen to guide the selection of measures and subsequent analysis of the workplace wellness program because:

The Logic Model is often used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their programs

Using the Logic Model allowed the researchers to identify the associations between program participation and outcomes.

The researchers did not want to use a conceptual model to guide their study

It allowed the researchers to evaluate the wellness program implementation

The primary outcome that the researchers were evaluating was:

The number of injuries reported by workers after participating in the wellness program

The number of worker terminations after participating in the wellness program

The return-on-investment of the wellness program

The number of workers that participated in the wellness program

The design of this study was:

Correlational

Experimental

Descriptive

Quasi-experimental

The results of the study demonstrated that:

Participants in the wellness program were younger than non-participants

Injury rates were higher in the post-program period

Two-thirds of participants worked in the independent living department

When calculating the return-on-investment the wellness program:

Saved the company million of dollars

Did not save the company any money

Saved $1.585 for every $1 invested

Saved $5.00 for every $1 invested