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
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)
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) is a specific, 7-phase, small group, supportive crisis intervention process. it is a structured group story-telling process combined with practical information to normalize group member reactions to a critical incident and facilitate their recovery.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.