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.

Healthy Professional Worker Toolkit

This toolkit includes represents a collection of curated resources to help professionals deal with mental health issues such as workload management, conflict, bullying & harassment, discrimination and addressing stigma and disclosure. It includes resources for 6 different professions including Academia, Dentistry, Education, Medicine, Midwifery, and Nursing.

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Mental Health in the Workplace: A SGBA+ Informed Toolkit

This toolkit contains resource sheets on specific topics on mental health and psychological well-being at work with explicit considerations for men, women and people with diverse gender identities.

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Trauma - Informed Care Implementation Resource Centre

The website is part of Center for Health Care Strategies, which is based in the United States, and provides various resources for trauma-informed care. The resources range from learning about trauma-informed care, how to implement it in the workplace with relevance to leaders, staff, and patients, and policy considerations.

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Joy in Work Toolkit

This toolkit outlines essential components for fostering joy in the workplace and supporting the public health workforce. It also includes an action guide for leaders to promote staff well-being and cultivate joy at work

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Supporting our Staff

This toolkit draws on the Vanderbilt Model of Professional Behaviour (Hickson et al., 2007) and Professor Michael West’s (2017) research on compassionate leadership and the function of teams to guide organisations to a new way of thinking, focus for action and the crucial link back to improved patient care.

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Nursing Retention Toolkit

In response to the acute nursing shortages across the country and internationally, this toolkit has been developed to support nursing retention. As a resource created ‘by nurses, for nurses’, the toolkit draws on the expertise of the nursing community, evidence-based practice, and current lived experiences of front-line nurses

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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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CUSP Program: Psychological Safety

The purpose of this presentation is to introduce the concepct of psychologbical safety, Identify barriers and facilitators that impact psychological safety and describe steps to create and implement a psychologically safe environment

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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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Workplace Mental health in LTC: Training and Support Program for Implementation Teams

This Workplace Mental Health in LTC program provides free training and coaching support to help long-term care (LTC) homes across Ontario adopt the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. The Standard was published in 2013 and defines a systematic approach to creating and sustaining a psychologically safe and healthy work environment.

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Reimagining LTC Webinar: Mental Health and Psychological Safety in the Workplace

The Reimagining LTC webinar focuses on mental health and psychological safety in the workplace. The Mental Health Commission of Canada shared ways to implement psychological safety approaches and support the well-being of the long-term care workforce.

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Healthcare Compassion Fatigue

This video talks about how compassion fatigue is a risk to anyone exposed to the stress of trauma, especially frontline workers. Learn the signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout and how to build resilience.

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Civility Matters: An Online Toolkit for Long-Term Care Staff

The purpose of this toolkit is to raise awareness about the nature and impact of workplace incivility on staff well-being and care delivery and rrovide practice-based scenarios, strategies and resources for addressing workplace (in)civility and supportive workplace relationships.

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Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Toolkit for Long Term Care

The Workplace Violence Risk Assessment Toolkit contains a detailed hazard assessment designed to help long-term-care workplaces identify hazards, establish their risk rating, identify controls and implement an action plan.

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Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff

In its program “Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff,” Hawai’i Pacific Health (HPH), a not-for-profit health care system invites clinical staff who use its electronic health record system to identify documentation and other practice requirements that should be eliminated, changed or modified.

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Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation

By focusing on six key domain areas of content — mental health, physical activity, nutrition, rest, quality of life, and safety — the Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation program aims to holistically enhance and support all aspects of nurse well-being and wellness.

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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.

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Time to Speak Up: A Graphical Depiction of Psychological Safety in Health Care Teams

An article that presents scenarios related to psychological safety in health-care teams, while illustrating barriers and modelling a culture where individuals feel at ease to share their thoughts and concerns.

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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.

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