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.
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.
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)
Mental Health First Aid
MHFA is intended for adults interacting with adults. This course focuses on the four most common mental health disorders including substance related, mood related, anxiety and trauma related, and psychotic disorders. Participants who take this course are well prepared to interact confidently about mental health with their family, friends, communities, and workplaces.
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.
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.
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.
The Wellbeing Program
This article includes 20 questions for leaders about workplace psychological health and safety. These questions help review possible exposure to risk or potential for improvement.
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.
Enough is Enough: Putting a Stop to Violence in the Healthcare Sector
The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions has produced this discussion paper in order to catalyze a national discussion on violence in health care - one that brings together the disparate stories from coast to coast, highlighting its broad and pervasive impacts.
Recommendation for the Prevention of Violence in Healthcare Setting
The House of Commons Standing Committee on Health's report examines the scope and devastating impacts of workplace violence in health care settings. It provides nine recommendations to address this pressing issue.
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.
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.
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.
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.