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.
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.
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.