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.
Guide on Applying the Harassment Resolution Process
The purpose of this guide is to provide contextual information and best practices regarding harassment resolution process, including the use of the informal resolution processes and the application of the formal harassment complaint process.
Mental Health in the Workplace: An Accomodation Guide for Managers and Staff
The purpose of this Guide is to outline some key skills that managers in Ontario workplaces should have when presented with an employee who has a mental health concern.
Promising Practices for Supporting Long - Term Care Providers Resilience
This guide identifies promising practices that may promote personal resilience, team cohesion, and organizational learning which may be used by both policy makers and managers.
Organizational Resilience: A Guide For Long-Term Care Homes To Support Recruitment and Retention of Registered Practical Nurses
The aim of WeRPNs Organizational Resilience: A Guide for Long-Term Care Homes (LTCHs) to Support Recruitment and Retention of Registered Practical Nurses is to equip formal leaders (e.g., administrators, nurse, managers, supervisors) with an easy-to-use reference guide that can encourage actionable change.
Trauma Review Exercise
Creating safe and welcoming spaces reduces potential harm for everyone, especially those most likely to feel unwelcome and unsafe. This exercise will help you ‘walk through’ the spaces where you provide care. The goal is to think about how these spaces feel for service users.
Implementing Trauma - Informed Care: A Guidebook
This guidebook focuses on supporting nursing homes and other long term care facilities for older adults on how to implement trauma-informed practices and policies.
Trauma-Informed Practice Guide
The Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) Guide and TIP Organizational Checklist are intended to support the translation of trauma-informed principles into practice. Included are concrete strategies to guide the professional work of practitioners assisting clients with mental health and substance use (MHSU) concerns in British Columbia.
Moral Stress Amongst Healthcare Workers During COVID-19: A Guide to Moral Injury
A practical resource for healthcare workers and organizations to better understand the range of moral emotions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and to develop organizational and individual strategies to mitigate risks of lasting harm.
Well-being Debriefings for Health Care Workers
A facilitator training manual that guides the delivery of informal, peer-facilitated, small-group meetings and gives health-care workers the chance to discuss the difficult nature of their work and the issues that negatively affect their resiliency.
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.