= 18) at Canadian hospitals with inpatient mental health beds. Participants ranked their top priorities (i.e., most important, valuable, and urgent) and rated the perceived barriers and facilitators to implementing the recommended strategies at their hospital. Recommendations rated the highest priority concerned proactive strategies: preventing workplace critical events, creating psychologically healthy workplaces, and strengthening staff's ability to prevent and safely respond to critical events. However, hospitals were most likely to have engaged responses at the postexposure phase, including operational debriefing and trauma prevention for exposed staff. Capacity-building recommendations were the least likely to be undertaken. Current practices were related to ratings of familiarity and feasibility rather than agreement with the recommendation. Hospital and union representatives had similar priorities. These findings highlight the need for collaboration among hospital leadership, employee associations, government agencies, and other stakeholders to prevent workplace burnout and trauma. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).
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