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.
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.
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.
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.
Psychologically Safe Leader Assessment
This assessment tool provides free Workplace Strategies resources for leaders to assess and identify leadership strategies for psychological health and safety across five key domains: 1) communication and collaboration; 2) social inteligence; problem solving and conflict management; 4) security and safety; and 5) fairness and integrity.
Think Mental Health
This initiative is a joint effort from Ontario Health and Safety System Partners to provide business owners with the resources needed to better understand and prevent mental heath issues. Esentially, their goal is to help their staff and their companies to stay healthy.
Guarding Minds at Work
A comprehensive framework to help employers assess and address psychological health and safety in the workplace. The framework comprises eight steps, including ensuring organizational readiness, learning more about psychosocial factors, determining an assessment strategy, and creating a plan.
Preventing Burnout
This web page by Goverment of Canada defines the burnout and outlines some stratagies that could ebe adopted to by workers and leaders to adress it, including the tips and strategies to support a work colleague through burnout.
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
Developing Workplace Violence and Harassment Policies and Programs
This document contains information, tools and assessments that can be useful to employers as they identify hazards and risks related to violence and harassment, develop a workplace violence policy and program, develop a workplace harassment policy and program, or a domestic violence program.
Mental Health in the Workplace: An Accomodation Guide for Managers and Staff
The purpose of this Guide is to outline some key skills that managers in Ontario workplaces should have when presented with an employee who has a mental health concern.
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.
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.
The Working Mind Program for Long Term Care
TWM program aims to help individuals maintain their well-being while also supporting others living with a mental health problem or illness in a psychologically healthy and safe work setting. This program will aid employers who are interested in adopting the Psychological Health and Safety Standard in the workplace.
Organizational Resilience: A Guide For Long-Term Care Homes To Support Recruitment and Retention of Registered Practical Nurses
The aim of WeRPNs Organizational Resilience: A Guide for Long-Term Care Homes (LTCHs) to Support Recruitment and Retention of Registered Practical Nurses is to equip formal leaders (e.g., administrators, nurse, managers, supervisors) with an easy-to-use reference guide that can encourage actionable change.
LTC+ - Mental Health and Resiliency Resources for Healthcare Providers, Staff, and Leaders
This Long Term Care Plus (LTC+) Mental Health and Resiliency Resources for Healthcare Providers, Staff and Leaders page, created by Healthcare Excellence Canada, provides resources that rely on varied approaches to assist in providing support, guidance and tools for individuals, teams, leaders, and educators. These resources are designed for care providers, and some of these target LTC specifically.
Long-Term Care Staff: Honouring Grief and Increasing Resiliency
Every day in Long-Term Care, staff members work with clients and families who deal with chronic illness, dying and death.Recognizing that grief is naturally present in workplace, this workbook guides LTC staff how to honour the experience of simultaneous joy and suffering.
Stress First Aid Toolkit for Long-Term Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Stress First Aid toolkit is a self-care model with seven actions, including five core actions and two continuous actions, to address stress in long-term care.
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