At a glance
Explore NIOSH's Impact Wellbeing Guide for a step-by-step systems approach to improving wellbeing and building trust between leaders and healthcare workers.
Overview
Improving professional wellbeing for all healthcare workers is key to the success of hospitals and healthcare systems. Benefits range from boosting staff morale to ensuring a safe and supportive work environment for both healthcare workers and patients.
To help hospital leaders make meaningful changes to improve professional wellbeing, NIOSH and the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes' Foundation designed the Impact Wellbeing Guide: Taking Action to Improve Healthcare Worker Wellbeing. The Guide is designed to help hospital leaders and executives accelerate or supplement professional wellbeing work in their hospitals at the operational level.
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What's included
The Guide includes six evidence-informed Actions designed to improve the professional wellbeing of healthcare workers and strengthen hospital operations. Each Action offers useful background information and tools to fully equip hospital leaders to complete all steps. The activities culminate in a long-term wellbeing plan so that your team can sustain efforts over time.
Evidence-Informed and Real-World Tested
Key principles of the Impact Wellbeing Guide
Use a systems approach - Go beyond encouraging self-care and individual resilience to focus on operational-level improvements.
Build trust - Prioritize two-way communication to create transparency and involve staff in decisions around wellbeing efforts.
Explore the Guide's six actions
Workshop series: Delving deeper into the Actions
NIOSH hosted a three-part virtual workshop series to further explore the Guide’s resources. Participants learned how to make systems-level changes within their hospitals and build trust between leaders and healthcare workers. They also got to hear examples of the Actions in practice from wellbeing experts and hospital leader peers. Each workshop covered two of the six Actions in the Guide.
