Patient Family & Community Engagement | Staff & Provider Engagement | Patient and Care Partners

Standing Up for the Workforce: Seven Considerations for Patients and Families

In today’s challenging healthcare environment, healthcare workers often face incivility and physical violence that threaten their safety and well-being. “Standing Up for the Workforce” offers seven actions that patients and families can take to address this reality. Presented by a member of the Global Patient and Family Advisory Board, this learning bite calls on us to create safer workforce experiences by walking in their shoes, acknowledging the sacrifices they make in caring for others and treating them with the respect and compassion they deserve.