Other Resources

Having information to use and share with others is important. Resources can be useful in different ways for everyone, so we encourage each individual to explore options and build a resource toolkit of your own.

Other resources to consider:

• The Self Care Unit Podcast explores a variety of mental health topics for nursing professionals.
• Operation Happy Nurse offers free membership to an online community of nurses and access to tools and resources that address burnout, stress management, fitness, nutrition and many other wellness topics.
• The National Center for PTSD offers an online PTSD coaching tool or PTSD Coach app for identifying and managing stress, trauma, and other symptoms.
• JAMA Network presents articles on professional well-being.
• American Academy of Family Physicians includes resources on putting physician health first.
• The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) shares mental health resources and a wellness guide for emergency physicians via the ACEP Wellness Section, a group dedicated to research on wellness issues, peer support and other relevant topics.
• ACEP Frontline Podcast talks to Dr. Darria Long Gillespie about “Mom Hacks” she’s learned as an emergency room physician and mother.
• RN to MSN presents a Nurse Mental Health Guide with resources for the nursing profession.
• American Medical Women’s Association has an initiative to help reframe mental health licensure questions.
• The Moral Matters podcast looks at moral injury and focuses on solutions and the growing need for change.
• Osmosis Nursing Resilience Course helps participants recognize, understand and cope with stressors in (and outside of) the nursing environment. This free course for nurses was developed with #FirstRespondersFirst, and offers 3.75 continuing education credits.
• The National Academy of Medicine has resources to support health care professionals.
• American Medical Association offers information on physician well-being.
• The Schwartz Center offers information, tips, and resources for health care professionals.
• Heroes Health is a free mobile app from the UNC School of Medicine. It helps health care professionals and first responders monitor their mental health and gain access to mental health resources.
• American Nurses Foundation Well-Being Initiative offers tools and resources to support the mental health and resilience of all nurses.

Resources for Health Care Organizations and Leadership

As a health care leader, having information to use and share with others in your organization is important. Resources can be useful in different ways for each organization, so we encourage each leader to explore options and build a resource toolkit of your own.

• NAMI Frontline Wellness in collaboration with the American College of Emergency Physicians now offers PeER Connect, a 1-1 Peer Support Leader training for emergency physicians. To learn more about offering this training in your emergency department, contact [email protected].
• The Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation provides a Licensure and Credentialing Strategy Toolkit to help equip health systems and state-level institutions protect their health care workforce.
• All In: Wellbeing First for Healthcare is a coalition of leading health care organizations, working to advance the well-being of the health care workforce and promote a cultural transformation toward systemic accountability.
• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention offers interactive screening programs for suicide prevention, tailored for medical schools, hospitals and health systems.
• Healthy Nurse Healthy Nation is a program of the American Nurses Association Enterprise, designed to connect and engage nurses, employers and organizations around improving nurses’ health in six areas: mental health, physical activity, nutrition, rest, quality of life and safety.
• Suicide Prevention in Healthcare Settings is a video discussion from a range of expert perspectives, on the topics of evidence-based suicide assessments, suicide-focused treatments and decreasing malpractice risk through sound clinical practice.
• Practice Transformation is a framework from the American Medical Association that provides guidance to health system leaders on how to create the conditions where joy, purpose and meaning are possible for physicians.

If you have free resources you would like others to know about, please send them to [email protected].