The Fears and Solutions initiative is about starting a dialogue. Using a blank poster to fill out, staff and students are asked two questions: “what are you afraid of?” and “what are you going to about it?” By writing their answers to each of the questions on a poster, staff work together to come up with solutions to common fears. A proactive, welcoming environment is formed.

In Health Care incivility among coworkers/different shifts/departments can cause workers a great deal of stress and hostility in the workplace. There is a culture in healthcare that is a ‘sink or swim’ mentality rather than a working together and helping each other out. I have worked in healthcare for 27 years as a care aide.

A poster that asks two questions: what are you afraid of? and what are you going to do about it? It’s a way to get students and new careworkers to open up about their fears before they are actually working in the field.

To increase overall Safety Awareness we have created a safety game, similar to Jeopardy, with 4 categories, each with 3 questions, and each of our 6 communities compete to win our Safety Drills with new questions on a monthly basis.

Custom made scratch off tickets given out to team members that are acting in a safe manner.

At Eden Gardens we had a great idea to increase safety in our care home for people living with dementia. We have created an in-house safety video library.
The purpose of this library is to promote a culture of safety for all our staff.

These bright (very visible) vests allow team members to see and understand safety inspections happening around the workplace. In addition, the vests have also helped teach employees who have English as a second language, to understand the importance

The patient Identification band with colour coding is intended for every resident and acts as a helpful way to track and identify residents. For example, Red ID band represents residents who have Alzheimer disease.