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
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.
Stress Assess
Stress Assess is an online survey tool designed for workers and managers who are interested in assessing psychosocial hazards in the workplace.
Stress First Aid
Stress First Aid is a framework to improve recovery from stress reactions both in oneself and in coworkers. Includes training materials and other resources.
CLMLS Mental Health Toolkit
This award winning mental health toolkit provides members and organizations with the means needed to identify, monitor, and implement change for the betterment of the medical laboratory profession.
Toolkit for Emotional Coping for Healthcare Staff
This slideset can be used by individual staff or healthcare teams to learn coping and resilience building skills.
Workplace Wellbeing and Mental Health Toolkit
Alberta Health Services created a toolkit with evidence-based actionable strategies to help workplaces increase support for individual mental health in the workplace.
Mind Share Partners
Mind Share Partners created this guide to equip organizations with meaningful strategies and real-life examples of how to support employee mental health during COVID-19.
Civility, Respect & Engagement in the Workplace (CREW)
This resource focuses on culture change in the workplace where interactions are civil and respectful. The benefits of CREW is higher overall job satisfaction, better patient outcomes, fewer complaints and many more.
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.
Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff (GROSS)
Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff (GROSS) aims to reduce unnecessary daily task of healthcare professionals that causes burdern. To do this, it requires an organizational effort to eliminate “stupid stuff” in the existing process.
Establishing a Chief Wellness Officer Position
This article argues for the necessity for an organizational groundwork for wellness in the workplace. This article goes over the purpose and role of the chief wellness officer and how it would benefit the organization.
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.