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)
#2022 Healthcare Workforce Rescue Package
Evidence-based actions that can support healthcare team member well-being. The first-of-its-kind list prioritizes five critical actions leaders can take now to safeguard the emotional and psychological needs of healthcare workers
Returning to the Workplace - Resiliency Toolkit for Managers
Provides information, strategies, tips, and resources to guide managers and people leaders in their work to support employee and team well-being and resiliency
Flattened Hierarchy Model
A weakening of traditional hierarchies in a hospital setting that permits the delegation of tasks ‘down’ to the most invested stakeholder rather than ‘up’ to the most responsible one.
Assaultive Staff Action Program (ASAP)
A voluntary, system-wide, peer-help, crisis intervention program to address the psychological aftermath in staff victims of patient assaults.
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)
Escape Room as a team building intervention in professional healthcare teams
A novel approach to advance team cohesion in the healthcare setting
Schwartz Rounds
A standardized rounding program designed to openly and honestly discuss social and emotional issues that health workers face in caring for patients and families.
Wobble Room
A physical space for health workers to unwind and connect. It is open to all employees 24/7 to help release tension and recharge.
Staff Well-being Hub
A designated positive space for hospital staff to help them detox and recuperate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Bubble
A program and a space for relaxation and support for hospital-based health workers.
Balint 2.0: A Virtual Balint Group for Doctors Around the World
A Balint group is a purposeful, regular meeting among family physicians, with a trained facilitator or leader, to allow discussion of any topic that occupies a physician's mind outside of his or her usual clinical encounters.
Line Manager Competency Indicator Tool
Allows managers to assess whether they currently have the behaviors identified as effective for preventing and reducing stress at work
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