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.
Hearing our Voices: De-centering whiteness in Health Care
This two-part article series shares a film acknowledging that racism exists in health care and explores ways to move toward an anti-racist state.
Wellbeing Playbook
The Wellbeing Playbook is a guide for hospitals and health system leaders to address burnout in organizations. It contains seven key steps for success and provides real-world case examples of successful interventions.
The Wellbeing Program
This article includes 20 questions for leaders about workplace psychological health and safety. These questions help review possible exposure to risk or potential for improvement.
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.
National Plan for Health Workforce Wellbeing
The National Plan calls on multiple actors - including health care and public health leaders, government, payers, industry, educators, and leaders in other sectors - to help drive policy and systems change.
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.
Workplace Health Model
This website walks through the systematic process of buiding a workplace health promotion program emphasizing four main steps.
De-Implementation Checklist
The De-Implementation Checklist was created to reduce unintended burdens for health system leaders. This process includes eliminating requirements that add little to no value to patients.
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.