At a glance
In Action 2, build a dedicated team to support professional wellbeing at your hospital. This team should be cross-disciplinary, cross-department, and have shared governance between management and workers.
About the Action
Purpose
Assemble a Professional Wellbeing Team that will lead efforts in your hospital in support of professional wellbeing. This team is critical to ensure that professional wellbeing stays centered in your hospital's operations without putting the work only on one position or department.
Key concept
Building a Professional Wellbeing Team ensures that executive leadership commits time and resources to protect, improve, and sustain the professional wellbeing of healthcare workers. Shared governance between management and worker representatives is essential to trust-building and ensuring that the voices of healthcare staff are included.
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Action 2 resources
Download the resources below to determine the appropriate representatives for your Professional Wellbeing Team and build your team norms and expectations:
Professional Wellbeing Team roles chart
Committee charter worksheet
Customizable materials
Explore customizable graphics and promotional materials to communicate about professional wellbeing efforts with your staff.
- Download and open the PDF. You will see a highlighted field of editable text. Each poster has a portion of bracketed text for you to type in your custom message. For example: [INSERT HOSPITAL-SPECIFIC URL].
- You can also customize the poster with your hospital’s logo. We recommend using a white logo with a transparent background. The preferred file type is a .png file. To insert the logo, click on the “LOGO IPSUM” graphic — from here, a window will open prompting you to select your logo file.
- After inserting the logo, be sure to save your customized poster.
- How to customize your poster: 1) Download and open the PDF. You will see a highlighted field of editable text. Each poster has a portion of bracketed text for you to type in your custom message. For example: [INSERT HOSPITAL-SPECIFIC URL]. 2) You can also customize the poster with your hospital’s logo. We recommend using a white logo with a transparent background. The preferred file type is a .png file. To insert the logo, click on the “LOGO IPSUM” graphic — from here, a window will open prompting you to select your logo file. 3) After inserting the logo, be sure to save your customized poster.