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.

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.

This resource provides guidance on bereavement support in long-term care settings following resident deaths. It addresses grief reactions experienced by families, staff, and co-residents, offering practical strategies for emotional support, memory rituals, end-of-life care transitions, and institutional support systems to foster a compassionate workplace culture.

Based on interviews with long-term care workers, this toolkit offers practical organizational strategies to support staff experiencing grief after resident deaths. It provides actionable ideas such as memory trees, structured debriefings, peer support, and formal protocols to acknowledge loss and prevent staff burnout.

This Facebook page is dedicated to raising awareness of the value and significance of personal support workers in Ontario. It also provides updates on training and other useful information to support the personal support workers.

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