Database of Health Workforce Innovations
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Wobble Room
With the staffing shortages in healthcare the question continues to arise about how people can protect their psychological safety while dealing with the demands they face in the workplace.
A wobble room is a physical space for health workers to unwind and connect. Wobble rooms provide space for health-care workers to sleep, breathe or sit.
Wobble Room Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqHC9TLPgY
Wobble Room Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DqHC9TLPgY
- Mental health services
- Community Health Workers
- Medical Imaging Workers
- Medical Laboratory Technologists
- Mental Health Workers
- Military Health Workers
- Non-traditional Health Workers
- Nurse Practitioners*
- Nurse Specialists*
- Nurses - Licensed Practical
- Nurses - Registered
- Paramedics
- Personal Support Workers
- Physical Therapists
- Physicians - Emergency
- Physicians - Intensive Care
- Physicians - Specialists
- Public Health Workers
- Respiratory Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Health Care Workers
Inspired by similar rooms at Vancouver General Hospital, Interior Health now has wobble rooms at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) and, newly opened, Royal Inland Hospital (RIH) in Kamloops, making use of meetings rooms that have been primarily empty during the pandemic.
- Emergency Medical Services
- Hospitals
- Primary Health Care
- Public Health
- Urban/Suburban
- Rural
Support and funding from administration
Research Intervention - outcome data available
"The wobble room has become a place where staff can make sense of how the pandemic is affecting them and create a new normal with respect to personal safety and team cohesion"
Interior Health
250-469-7070
Canada - British Columbia
Canada