Without Healthy Nurses, There is No Health Care System

This is an archive of a past event.

The health and well-being of nurses and other health care providers are under threat. Global and more local shocks, including ongoing austerity in healthcare systems, rising social and economic inequities that increasingly limit access to social determinants of health for more people, and the replacement of human-centred values in health care with technological imperatives have collectively led to rising rates of stress on the nursing workforce. This presentation will critically examine what we mean by “nurse well-being” in this context and offer trauma- and violence-informed strategies to mitigate these threats and build on nursing and organizational strengths to protect and improve safety and well-being for staff and clients. 

By the end of this event, participants will: 

1. To better understand how different factors in the work and workplace may affect nurse well-being.
2. To consider trauma- and violence-informed strategies to prevent and respond to potential harms, and build on protective factors, to strengthen nurse well-being.

Presenter(s)

As Professor and Canada Research Chair in Mobilizing Knowledge on Gender-Based Violence in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western University, Dr. Nadine Wathen’s research examines the health and social service sector response to gender-based violence, interventions to reduce health inequities, and the science of knowledge mobilization. She focuses on developing person-centred interventions, and learning and practice resources, that enhance health equity, and take a gendered, trauma- and violence-informed approach to providing services for those experiencing violence and/or marginalization. She is deeply committed to a partnership approach to research and knowledge sharing.