Database of Health Workforce Innovations

9329

Title

Wobble Room

Brief Description of Challenge

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.

Brief Description of Innovation

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

Innovation – Increase Numbers

Innovation – Increase Flexibility

Innovation – Increase Availability

Mental health services

Worker

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

Task/Skill

Training / Retraining

Brief Description of Setting

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.

Setting - Organization

Emergency Medical Services
Hospitals
Primary Health Care
Public Health

Setting - Geography

Urban/Suburban
Rural

Facilitators

Support and funding from administration

Barriers

Space

Impact / Evaluation

"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"

Link

Why Do We Need Wobble Rooms during COVID-19

Contact

Organization

Interior Health

Phone Number

250-469-7070

Country

Canada

Expert Assessment – Impact

Medium

Assessed Risk - Workers

Low

Assessed Risk - System

Medium

Assessed Risk – Patients

Low

Expert Assessment – Confidence

Language

English

Type

Published Literature

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