Next Frontier in Workplace Mental Health Strategies for Nurses
2020 Mental Health for Nurses Speakers
Learn about the Speakers for the 2020 Mental Health for Nurses Virtual Conference
2020 Mental Health for Nurses Agenda
View the Agenda and Learn about the Topics for the 2020 Mental Health for Nurses Virtual Conference
12:45 pm – 1:15 pm
Preventing Psychological Harm in the Healthcare Workplace
- Protection from moral distress and support for psychological self-care
- Better defining the chronic stressors within the industry
- Reducing stigma
- Increasing mental health resiliency
- Innovative measures and resources to help nurses
1:15 pm – 1:45 pm
Safer Workers Means Better Care- Violence Prevention Strategies
- Nurses cannot provide quality care if they are afraid of being injured at work
- Violence can be prevented in healthcare
- Improve the psychological and physical health of nurses
- Learn about the tools and resources that can help you reduce injuries
1:45 pm – 2:30 pm
Substance Use Disorder Among Nurses: Causes, Symptoms, and Recovery
- Addiction risks facing healthcare professionals
- Warning signs of substance use disorder in nurses
- Weighing in on investigations
- Effective and compassionate interventions
- Facilitating recovery
- Return to work in a safety sensitive workplace
2:30 pm – 2:40 pm
Screen Break
2:40 pm – 3:10 pm
Employer Responsibilities: Mental Health in the Workplace
- Current considerations for your employee mental health policy
- Engaging management and co-workers
- Workplace culture
- Communication strategies
- Intervention, discipline, return to work
3:10 pm – 3:40 pm
Interactive Breakout Sessions
Topics will be announced after polling
3:40 pm – 3:50 pm
Yoga Break
Christina Sjoberg | INNERGY Corporate Yoga
3:50 pm – 4:20 pm
Beyond Silence: Advancing Evidence-Based Tools and Training Customized for Healthcare Organizations
- Critical reflection on the reasons why nurses do not seek/receive mental health supports in a timely way
- Review development of a workplace mental health training program that is customized for healthcare workers
- Present findings from systematic evaluation of the peer-led training program in large as well as small workplaces
- Review development and evaluation of new smartphone app designed to promote early intervention and support for healthcare workers
12:40 pm – 1:25 pm
A Two-Eyed Seeing Approach to Nurse Mental Health and Wellness
- What the data and nurses tell us about their mental health and wellness
- How Trauma informed care and Cultural safety and humility inform a Two-Eyed Seeing approach
- How the perspectives of the Bio-medical model and Indigenous wisdom can be understood as two wisdoms informing a new way of viewing healthcare and care of nurses
- How the Two-Eyed seeing approach informs nurse mental health and wellness in the COVID-19 context
1:25 pm – 1:55 pm
Supportive Intervention for Nurses: The Nurses’ Health Program
- Compassionate care
- Providing a pathway for support and recovery
- Supportive and confidential environment
- Harm reduction
1:55 pm – 2:00 pm
Screen Break
2:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Case Studies with Panel Discussion:
Our Hospital’s Journey to Advancing Mental Health
- Development of an Integrated Wellness Program
- Our experience implementing Excellence Canada’s Mental Health at Work Framework
- Creating a positive workplace culture of engagement and wellness
- Leveraging data to inform wellness programming
- The role of leadership in workplace wellness and mental health
- Setting the foundation of wellness for nurse and employee mental health
- Historical issues: incivility, professionalism and autonomy, teamwork, supporting workplace mental health
- Explore the voices of nursing through COVID 19
- Lessons Learned
- Revising our wellness agenda post COVID