Poster Presentation
Friday, 21 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Friday, 21 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations III
Canada's Healthy Workplace Initiative: Improving Healthcare Milieus Through Collaboration
Isabelle St-Pierre, RN, MScN1, Kathie Paddock, MSc2, and Melanie Lavoie-Tremblay, RN, PhD1. (1) School of Nursing, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, (2) Office of Nursing Policy, Health Canada, Health Policy Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Learning Objective #1: explain Canada's Healthy Workplace Initiative.
Learning Objective #2: describe several interventions and outcome indicators related to a healthy work environment.
Health care organizations have begun to recognize the need for a healthy workplace to improve recruitment and retention of health care workers as well as to positively influence patient outcomes and to contribute to health system effectiveness. In order to assist in promoting the creation of healthy workplaces, the Government of Canada introduced the Healthy Workplace Initiative (HWI). The main objective of the initiative is to support current actions by health care organizations to create and maintain healthy workplace environments. As a result, direct funding commencing in spring 2005 to the amount of approximately $4 million over 27 months will be provided to support 11 workplace projects across Canada.
Objective: To examine different interventions used by Canadian health care organizations to create healthy workplace environments.
Methods: An in-depth review of the 11 projects has been conducted. Using the Conceptual Model for Healthy Work Environments for Nurses, each project was classified according to whether its main focus was on the physical context, the psycho/socio/cultural context or professional/occupational context and whether it focused on individual and/or organizational level. Key interventions and common outcomes indicators were identified.
Findings: The majority of interventions were found to focus on ways to improve the psycho/socio/cultural context both at the individual and organizational levels. Strategies planned for each project include multi-levelled and multi-faceted approaches. Although the scope of each project differed greatly, related strategies and common outcome indicators were also identified.
Implications: To determine outcomes for each project, as well as to provide an understanding of which initiative worked, which did not and why, a comprehensive evaluation will take place. Due to the complexity of each initiative, several methods of evaluation will be necessary. As well, the evaluation process will have to be ongoing and results will need to be documented as they emerge.

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