Leadership Guidebook to Address Priorities for Psychological Health & Safety for Workforce Retention in LTC

Leaders have a key role in shaping work conditions and influencing workforce retention. Long-term care (LTC) work is often characterized by heavy workloads and insufficient resources that can lead to significant moral distress, high job pressures, and increased staff turnover. Legislation requires employers to prevent serious and lasting harm to workers. Considerable ambiguity has persisted regarding the scope and boundaries of liability for psychological injury in the workplace. With demands for LTC nursing care and support services continuing to grow, the need to address psychological health and safety (PHS) at work becomes more critically urgent to retain workers who are prepared to deliver these specialized care and services for residents and their families. The goal is to conduct a scoping review of the LTC retention literature, identify PHS priorities for workforce retention, and co-develop a proposed plan to address PHS for workplace retention in LTC.

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