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.

Peer Led Debriefing Toolkit: Guidelines for Promoting Effective Grief Support Among Front Line Staff

The peer-led debriefing toolkit is intended as a practice and training resource that can be incorporated into the palliative care program of a long-term care home. It covers strategies for overcoming the effects of disenfranchised grief and illustrates how LTC staff can manage their emotions and stressors related to the resident’s death.

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I Am A Caregiver Designed for Caregivers in Long-Term Care Homes

This toolkit is a dedicated resource created for caregivers with input from mental health professionals and resources. It includes three essential steps that caregivers can adopt to care for their health and wellbeing.

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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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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. 

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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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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.

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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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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.

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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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Thrive Series: Team Toolkit: Psychological Healthy Workplaces

This toolkit includes job aids and videos to assist teams in addressing mental health in the workplace. The title of each job aid includes the name and number of the psychosocial factor it addresses.

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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.

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Moral Injury Toolkit

This toolkit provides leaders with an understanding of moral injury in an organizational context, and includes tools, templates, and tips for understanding what preventative and early intervention structures are already in place, and what more might need to be done.

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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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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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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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Quick TIC Toolkit

These resources will not only equip people to care for themselves, but will also train individuals in the basics of trauma-informed care to more effectively support those who have experienced the effects of trauma. This toolkit is set out in differing levels for differing individual needs and capabilities at this time.

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Trauma - Informed Practice: A Toolkit for Scotland

This Trauma Informed Practice Toolkit has been developed to further support that ambition by providing our workforce with clear, tangible examples of where trauma informed practice has been successfully embedded across different sectors of the workforce and how that learning can be applied in a range of contexts

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