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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Workplace Health Model
This website walks through the systematic process of buiding a workplace health promotion program emphasizing four main steps.