Colleen Grady

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Pour créer des lieux de travail plus sûrs, il faut des dirigeants qui comprennent comment des années de restrictions des ressources, d’environnements malsains, d’abus de la part des patients, sans oublier une pandémie, ont contribué à l’épuisement professionnel et à l’insatisfaction des travailleurs. LA PRESSE CANADIENNE/Nathan Denette

Comment les gestionnaires du réseau de la santé peuvent favoriser des lieux de travail psychologiquement plus sûrs

Angela Coderre-Ball, Queen's University, Ontario; Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario, and Denis Chênevert, HEC Montréal

L’avenir de notre système de santé dépend du recrutement et de la rétention d’un personnel soignant et hautement qualifié. Il est essentiel de créer des environnements où ils se sentent soutenus et en sécurité.
For workers in long-term care homes, distress due to difficult working conditions is often dismissed as a part of the job description. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

5 steps for tackling Canada’s long‑term care crisis: It starts with valuing the well‑being of workers

Sophy Chan-Nguyen, Queen's University, Ontario and Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario

The long-term care sector is currently being held together by a very vulnerable workforce, and is at risk of failing without immediate solutions.
Building safer workplaces requires leaders who understand how years of resource constraints, unhealthy work environments, abuse from patients and a pandemic have contributed to overwhelming burnout and job dissatisfaction among workers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

How health‑care leaders can foster psychologically safer workplaces

Angela Coderre-Ball, Queen's University, Ontario; Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario, and Denis Chênevert, HEC Montréal

The future of our health system depends on recruiting and retaining passionate and highly skilled health-care workers. It’s essential to build work environments where they feel supported and safe.
Until the government acknowledges the critical role family physicians have in population health and on easing the burden on acute hospital care, pressures will only be relieved temporarily. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

With family doctors heading for the exits, addressing the crisis in primary care is key to easing pressure on emergency rooms

Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario

A strong primary care system keeps patients away from emergency departments and helps patients self-manage illnesses. But Ontario’s plan to ease pressure on emergency rooms ignores family medicine.
Police officers speak to a health-care professional outside the emergency department at Toronto General Hospital during a protest against COVID-19 measures in September 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young 

Patient aggression and physician burnout: The makings of a human resources crisis in health care

Colleen Grady, Queen's University, Ontario

Although demanding, disruptive and violent patients are a major contributor to physician burnout, solutions to address this increasing problem are not a priority.

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