Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS)
A validated curriculum for teaching interprofessional communication; used with health workers; focuses on five key principles (leadership, situation monitoring, mutual support, communication, and team structure)
Well-being debriefings for health care workers: An Evidence-based method for improving well-being
A facilitator training manual to lead informal, peer-facilitated, small-group meetings where health workers have an opportunity to give voice to the difficult nature of their work and discuss issues that negatively affect resiliency
Allyship in Residency
This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop aimed at helping residents understand the definition of allyship, effective allyship to patients and colleagues, and allyship differences across communities.
VITALS tool for interupting microaggressions
This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop designed to raise awareness of microaggressions encountered by medical students and trainees. It includes a focus on the use of the VITALS (validate, inquire, take time, assume, leave opportunities, speak up) framework when responding to microaggressions.
ERASE-ing Patient Mistreatment of Trainees: Faculty Workshop
This article describes the development, teaching and evaluation of a stepwise approach to help faculty physicians manage patient mistreatment of trainees (residents and students). The approach is summarized by the acronym ERASE.
REWIND Communication Tool
This article describes the development of a 1-hour workshop for residents with didactics on mistreatment in the medical learning environment. It includes a demonstration of the use of the REWIND (relax, express, why, inquire, negotiate, determine) communication tool to address mistreatment in residency.
Forum Theater as a Teaching Tool to Combat Patient Bias
This article presents an educational activity that used an adaptation of forum theater, in which participants role-played an instance of oppression with a goal of altering the ultimate outcome. It provided them with the opportunity to develop and rehearse responses to workplace bias from patients and patient families in a way that preserved the provider-patient relationship.
Reflective Debriefing
A protocol for regular case study/moral distress debriefings with ICU nursing staff, including an educational component in moral distress, moral efficacy, and common end-of-life issues on the ICU (social work intervention)
Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP)
This article promotes the use Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP) (a brief, evidence-based intervention designed for patients with advanced cancer); it describes the principles underlying MCP and how it might be adapted and applied to ameliorate burnout among health care workers
Civility, Respect, Engagement in the Workforce (CREW)
A culture change initiative to improve the work climate through more civil and respectful interactions (National Center for Organization Development, United States Department of Veterans Affairs)
Queer Mentorship Program
The Canadian Caucus of Queer and Trans Midwives hosts a queer mentorship program to support student midwives in Canada. Primarily this will work as an online/phone program with each mentor‑mentee pair deciding how and how often they will interact.
BIPOC Mentorship Program
A program launched by Toronto Metropolitan University MEP for self-identified students who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Colour (BIPOC). This program is an opportunity for BIPOC midwives to pair, share and care with the next generation of BIPOC students.
Trauma Risk Management (TRiM)
A structured peer-support process/system of risk assessment and post trauma support aimed to reduce stigma associated with help seeking; it relies on training volunteer nonmedical staff from within the organization to be TriM practitioners.
Beyond Silence Champion Training
An evidence-based workplace mental health training course designed specifically for healthcare workers and led by trained healthcare employees with mental health experience. It combines information sharing and skill development with strategies for stigma reduction.
On The Agenda
On the agenda is a series of free workshop materials and facilitator tools to address psychosocial factors. Create an action plan with your team to improve psychological health and safety.