Healthy Workplace Climate Backgrounder

Healthy workplace climate

March 31 2011: Lesley Moss and Maura MacPhee have joined forces. Welcome to the Healthy Workplace Climate Action Team!

Action Team Mission

To investigate evidence based practices that support healthy workplace climate.

Team Leaders

Lesley Moss, Executive Director, Occupational Health + Safety, Vancouver Island Health Authority

Maura MacPhee, Associate Professor, UBC Nursing; Academic Lead, BC Nursing Leadership Institute (NLI)

Membership

All InspireNet members are welcome to join this Action Team.

Background: What is a Healthy Workplace Climate?

We all want to work in a healthy workplace climate.  These workplaces are well functioning and collegial, they are safe and supportive, and patients receive quality care. There is a considerable body of research that tells us that healthy workplaces are comprised of the following: a) strong, visionary leadership; b) nursing control over practice; c) reasonable workloads; d) professional development opportunities; and e) effective communications and teamwork. Healthy workplaces are co-created by the people within them: it takes all of us to make a safe, quality work environment with a culture of professional pride and respect.

To Join this Team:

If you'd like to join this team, join InspireNet (free), login to the website, select the My Teams tab, and select this team from the blue box in the left hand navigation ("Please add me to…")