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
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.
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.
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.
Mindwell for Healthcare Workers
This intervention aims to improve health workers’ mental health by teaching them tools to build resilience and well-being, remain calm amidst chaos, and feel confident and capable each day.
Duke Well-Being Monthly Webinar Series
This year-long series introduces you to the science of well-being and the practical tools and strategies you can use right away to emotionally support yourself and your team, department, unit, or organization. Enroll and participate on your own timetable
Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation
HNHN is a program of the American Nurses Association Enterprise designed to improve the health of the Nation's 4.4M nurses - one nurse at a time. It's a web platform to inspire action, cultivate friendly competition, provide content and resources to nurses, gather data, and connect nurses with each other, with employers, and organizations.
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.
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.
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.
Workplace Health Model
This website walks through the systematic process of buiding a workplace health promotion program emphasizing four main steps.
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.