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
Workplace Well-being and Mental Health Toolkit
This toolkit aims to improve the psychosocial environment in the workplace. This in turn will improve psychological wellbeing of employees and improve support for individual mental health in the workplace.
Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (Team STEPPS)
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.