Health Worker Burnout Toolkit
The Health Worker Burnout Toolkit is a free platform of evidence-informed strategies to improve the mental health of health care workers. The interventions in this toolkit are categorized according to four levels: system, organization, team and individual.
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.
Psychological Health and Safety Toolkit for Primary Care Teams and Training Programs
This toolkit aims to empower comprehensive primary care teams and training programs to promote psychological health and safety through a set of curated, evidence-informed resources focused on team-based activities, policies, and practices.
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
Redefining the Culture of Care
This document summarizes the key ideas and themes endorsed by healthcare providers. It contains culture-change recommendations by and from those who are part of the culture.
Advancing Collaborative Teams (ACT) Toolkit
This toolkit helps teams reflect on their performance and prioritize opportunities and strategies for further development as part of a team action plan. It includes reliable and valid assessment tools to evaluate interprofessional care competencies and psychological safety.
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.
Caring for Healthcare - A Toolkit for Psychological Health and Safety in Healthcare Workplaces
This toolkit was created specifically for the healthcare sector to provide ideas and resources for implementing the Standard in what can often be a challenging and complex environment.
How to Support Health - Care Workers at Work
This article identifies barriers and facilitators to creating a psychologically safe working environment. It also provides recommendations to protect workers from moral distress.
Examining Two Psychosocial Factors in Long - Term Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Brief
This report presents considerations for policy changes that can better support the psychological well-being of health-care professionals in Canada’s long-term care sector. Support for psychological self-care and protection from moral distress are discussed.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.