Welcome to the Long-Term Care Toolkit

This toolkit is part of a research project that focuses on building psychological safety in long term care and strengthening equity and trauma informed organizational capacity. Our team has developed a multi-level, intersectional inventory of high-quality resources.

Whether you’re a registered nurse, nurse practitioner, registered practical nurse, personal support worker, trainee, healthcare leader/manager/supervisor, director, administrator or HR specialist in long term care, there is something here for you.

Upon entering the site, you can choose resources based on the focus of the intervention, sector, format, or location. We want to create a community of support for long term care so if you try a resource and like it, feel free to click on the logo and leave a comment.

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OPSWA Courses & Education
OPSWA Courses & Education

Enhance your skills and confidence with expert-led online courses designed to help you provide exceptional care. Build valuable expertise applicable to home care, long-term care, and support care settings, and take the next step in your professional journey.

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Workplace Violence Prevention Toolkit
Workplace Violence Prevention Toolkit

Workplace Violence Prevention Toolkit, created by WeRPN, with support from the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care, was designed to support nurse’s knowledge and confidence in addressing workplace violence and harassment in their workplace. The toolkit contains 10 sections (Intro, Overview and 8 modules) and Workplace Violence Prevention Quiz is available after these are viewed.

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Long-Term Care Best Practices Toolkit
Long-Term Care Best Practices Toolkit

The LTC Toolkit is designed to offer point-of-care staff, nurses, educators and leaders access to the best available evidence-based resources and tools. It supports the use of best practice guidelines (BPG), program development, implementation and evaluation to enhance the quality of resident care and create a healthy work environment

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Navigating Professional Grief in Healthcare: Supporting Those Who Care for Others

This resource explores cumulative and disenfranchised grief experienced by healthcare providers following patient deaths. It provides actionable strategies for individual workers, teams, and healthcare leaders including reflective practices, informal check-ins, peer debriefing, and organizational policies to build grief literacy and prevent staff burnout.

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5 Resources for Healthcare Workers Experiencing Grief

This article highlights five practical avenues for healthcare workers managing personal or professional loss. It explores online grief counseling, workplace bereavement leave, peer support networks (e.g., EMTLife), national agency toolkits (SAMHSA), and second-victim crisis support teams (the ForYOU Team) to mitigate burnout and retention issues.

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Supporting Staff with Grief: A Guide For Leaders

This guide helps healthcare leaders recognize and normalize workplace grief experienced by staff following client or patient deaths. It provides practical strategies such as structured debriefs, team reflective spaces, and peer support frameworks to reduce burnout, compassion fatigue, and emotional distress among healthcare workers.

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