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.

Nursing Student’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellness

This article includes a variety of information to help professional registered nurses and student nurses manage their career paths. The Nurse Insights series segment offers an insider’s perspective on the nursing profession, and common questions and challenges are addressed with direct answers from experienced nurses.

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A 3-Step Guide to Family Satisfaction in Long-Term Care

The article describes three steps for improving family satisfaction in long-term care. These steps include responsive communication (especially after grievance), providing easy access to information, and reducing staff burdens to enable them to focus on direct care.

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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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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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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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Trauma Informed Care Toolkit

A comprehensive resource designed to empower nursing homes in fostering well-being and resilience among residents and staff. The toolkit is dedicated to assisting nursing facility administrators and their teams on their path towards delivering person-centered, trauma-informed care.

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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.

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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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Establishing a Chief Wellness Officer Position

This toolkit advocates for the necessity for an organizational groundwork for wellness in the workplace. It reviews the purpose and role of the chief wellness officer and how it would benefit the organization.

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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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Death Cafes for Prevention of Burnout

Informal discussions focusing on death, dying, loss, grief, and illness. They allow for reflection on distressing events and offer community and collaboration among hospital employees outside of work. With Covid-19 limiting social interactions and overloading of ICUs worldwide, their virtual administration provides an innovative strategy to mitigate burnout

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