Welcome to the Nursing Toolkit

What People Are Saying

I just think nurses themselves, people in management, need to be kinder and more understanding. And that we're permitted to not be okay and to take time off to look after our mental health.”

— Interview Participant

I think that they [employers] should have some form of even like, extra financial support for mental health - even or addictions counseling or addictions treatment centers.”

— Interview Participant

“I think the employers for nurses need to understand the stress of the jobs - of their nurses…allow us to take time when we need it. There needs to be.. something in place for when there is traumatic things that happen at work, which is often.

— Interview Participant

Mental Health First Aid

MHFA is intended for adults interacting with adults. This course focuses on the four most common mental health disorders including substance related, mood related, anxiety and trauma related, and psychotic disorders. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces.

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Mental Health Professional Practice Group

The MHPPG is dedicated to helping build upon our collective strengths in an effort to foster the mental health of our membership through creating partnerships, addressing nurses' wellness, engaging in advocacy, and working together to foster mentally healthy workplaces across the province of Saskatchewan.

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Togetherall

An online community where people support each other anonymously to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The platform is accessible anywhere, anytime, 24/7. Canadians may have free access to it through post-secondary institutions, employers or health care organizations.

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Violence, Aggression & Responsive Behaviours Toolkit

These toolkits were designed for use in hospitals, long-term care, home and community care and emergency medical services to protect those workers most at risk of workplace violence, including nurses, nurses' aids and other allied healthcare staff.

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Enough is Enough: Putting a Stop to Violence in the Healthcare Sector

The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions has produced this discussion paper in order to catalyze a national discussion on violence in health care - one that brings together the disparate stories from coast to coast, highlighting its broad and pervasive impacts.

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Recommendation for the Prevention of Violence in Healthcare Setting

The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health's report examines the scope and devastating impacts of workplace violence in health care settings. It provides nine recommendations to address this pressing issue.

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Guarding Minds at Work

Guarding Minds is a free online set of resources designed to assess and address psychological health and safety in your workplace. It is intended to be administered by one of your own employees.

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Presumptive Legislation For COVID-19

This position statement argues that workers diseases or disorder claims does not have to be proved especially in the case of COVID-19 since frontline workers are at a higher risk due to their work. Healthcare workers should be covered through preemptive legislation due to the ongoing crisis.

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