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.
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.
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.
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.
Workplace Mental Health Playbook for Business Leaders
This resource provides a path to more effective solutions and better outcomes for employees and for businesses. CAMH’s five powerful recommendations are based on the best available evidence, and were shaped by feedback from business leaders as well as CAMH researchers, clinicians and experts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guide on Applying the Harassment Resolution Process
The purpose of this guide is to provide contextual information and best practices regarding harassment resolution process, including the use of the informal resolution processes and the application of the formal harassment complaint process.
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.
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.
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