Canadian · Alberta-Based · Designed to Scale

Burnout is not a character flaw.
It is a measurable signal.

NervePoint is Canada's psychosocial risk measurement platform for healthcare, education, and public sector organizations — built to detect workforce distress before it becomes a vacancy, a claim, or a crisis. Grounded in Alberta's occupational health and human rights legislative framework, and designed to adapt to any jurisdiction.

NervePoint is not a wellness app. It is an occupational health risk intelligence tool.

Partner With Us The Evidence

The Scale of the Problem

The data has been telling us
this was coming for years.

13.4

Average sick days per year, public sector workers

Statistics Canada, Table 14-10-0190-01 (2023) — vs. 7.5 days in private sector. The widest gap in nearly four decades.

2×

Mental health WCB claims doubled 2012–2022

Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC, 2025). PTSD now accounts for approximately 50% of mental health injury claims in Canada.

$250K

Average cost to replace one specialist nurse

NSI Nursing Solutions (2024); Deloitte (2019). Includes recruitment, onboarding, orientation, and productivity loss during transition — not including vacancy costs.

422

Days lost per mental health WCB claim, public safety

Frontiers in Organizational Psychology (2023). Double the average for all other injury types. The cost is not just human — it is structural.

32%

Of social workers meet criteria for secondary traumatic stress disorder

Bride, B.E. (2007). Prevalence of secondary traumatic stress among social workers. Social Work, 52(1), 63–70.

6–12

Months of advance warning before voluntary attrition

Validated compassion satisfaction decline is a predictive leading indicator of voluntary turnover — visible in data long before a resignation letter is submitted.

$1M+

Annual workforce cost exposure for a mid-sized health organization

Composite estimate based on NervePoint platform financial modelling for a mid-sized health organization. Draws on turnover cost benchmarks (Deloitte, 2019; NSI Nursing Solutions, 2024), absenteeism data (Statistics Canada, 2023), presenteeism estimates (Manulife, 2022), and WCB/LTD claim projections (AWCBC, 2025). Individual inputs are independently sourced; composite figure is illustrative.

93%

Of Canadian nurses experiencing burnout symptoms

Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU) Member Survey, March 2024 (n=5,595). Burnout among nurses is now a national workforce sustainability and patient safety crisis.

Days lost per employee per year to absenteeism and presenteeism combined

Manulife Canada (2022). Analysis of nearly 50 group benefits plan sponsor clients and 4,900+ employees. Up from 40.8 days in 2020 — a trend increasing year over year. Standard HR metrics capture the absences. The productivity loss while present goes unmeasured.

The Gap

The science is 40 years old.
The platform that uses it is new.

Burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress are not personality failures. They are predictable, measurable occupational hazards — the occupational equivalent of cumulative trauma. The research has been clear for forty years.

Most workforce wellness programs measure engagement after the damage is done — not psychosocial risk as it accumulates.
Standard HR metrics (absenteeism, turnover, EAP utilization) are lagging indicators — the crisis has already occurred by the time they register.
Existing platforms do not address burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress as distinct, co-occurring clinical constructs.
Most tools do not connect individual worker data to organizational legislative obligations — leaving employers exposed under the Alberta OHS Act and CSA Z1003-13.
Privacy architecture in most platforms is policy-based, not technically enforced — destroying the psychological safety that produces honest data.

"The problem is not that organizations don't care about their people. The problem is that they have been measuring the wrong things, too late, with tools that were never designed for this. NervePoint was built to change that."

— Sarah Scahill, MHS BN RN CDMP CPHR Candidate CCHNC-C
Founder & CEO, NervePoint Health Technologies Inc.

Positioning

Built for a different
standard of rigour.

NervePoint was designed in response to the clinical and organizational gap that wellness programs, EAPs, and engagement surveys cannot fill.

NervePoint is NOT

A wellness app or engagement survey
An EAP or mental health benefit
A therapy platform or clinical service
A pulse survey or check-in tool
A performance management system
A replacement for clinical care

NervePoint IS

A psychosocial risk measurement platform
An occupational health risk intelligence tool
Mapped to CSA Z1003-13 and the AB OHS Act
Built on validated clinical instruments
A continuous monitoring system — not a one-time snapshot
A governance and due diligence data infrastructure

The Platform

Three integrated tools.
One measurement ecosystem.

NervePoint operates as three interconnected platforms serving individuals, teams, and organizational leadership — with a technically enforced privacy architecture protecting every layer.

B2C · Individual

NervePoint Individual

For healthcare professionals, educators, social workers, and public sector workers who want to understand their own psychosocial risk profile — privately, on their own terms. Validated clinical instruments. Actionable, evidence-based resources. No employer access. Ever.

For: Registered nurses · Educators · Social workers · First responders · Anyone in a high-demand caring role

B2B · Employee-Facing

NervePoint Working

The organizational deployment of NervePoint — providing employees with the same validated, privacy-protected individual experience while generating the anonymized aggregate data organizations need to fulfil their psychosocial risk management obligations.

For: Organizations with healthcare, education, public sector, or community service workforces

B2B · Executive Intelligence

Employer Intelligence Suite

Board-ready organizational risk intelligence. CSA Z1003-13 factor mapping. Department-level risk stratification. Financial risk quantification. Legal and regulatory exposure analysis. Strategy alignment with provincial and sector-specific mandates. The data governance layer for organizational due diligence.

For: CHROs · CMOs · CEOs · Boards · Health & Safety Committees · Risk Officers

Privacy Architecture

Honest data requires
structural protection —
not just promises.

NervePoint's most important design decision is also its most counterintuitive: the only way to generate organizationally useful data is to make individual data technically inaccessible to employers. Not policy-stated inaccessible. Architecturally inaccessible — enforced at the cloud infrastructure level, where employer-facing systems and individual data are separated by design, not permission settings.

Technically Enforced Minimum-N Anonymization

Organizational reports are only generated when a defined minimum cohort threshold is met — enforced at the database query level, not the application layer. No exceptions.

Individual Data Inaccessible to Employers

Employer users cannot access individual scores, responses, or identifiers at any permission level. Individual and organizational data are separated at the cloud infrastructure level — not by a setting that can be changed, but by the architecture of the system itself.

Informed Consent and Voluntary Participation

Platform participation is voluntary. Consent is documented, specific, and revocable. Data handling complies with PIPEDA, POPA, ATIA, and Alberta Health Information Act obligations.

Why This Matters Organizationally

Workers who trust that their data cannot be used against them answer honestly. Honest data produces accurate risk signals. Accurate risk signals enable real intervention. The privacy architecture is not a privacy feature — it is the scientific foundation of the platform.

"The trust proposition that makes NervePoint's organizational intelligence meaningful is the same one that protects every individual worker who uses it. We did not build privacy in. We built the platform on top of it."

Sarah Scahill · Founder & CEO

Legislative & Standards Context

Built on Alberta's legislative
framework. Adaptable
to any jurisdiction.

NervePoint was designed from the regulatory obligation inward — rooted in Alberta's occupational health and human rights framework, and structured to map to equivalent legislation across Canadian provinces and internationally.

CSA Z1003-13 / Z1003-23

National Standard for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace

The Canadian Occupational Health and Safety standard governing psychological health and safety management systems. Requires documented Plan–Do–Check–Act infrastructure. NervePoint is the measurement layer this standard requires.

MHCC Healthcare Extension

15-Factor Healthcare Framework

HealthCareCAN and the Mental Health Commission of Canada identified two healthcare-specific factors — including Protection from Moral Distress — that standard CSA Z1003 did not adequately address. NervePoint operationalizes all 15 factors.

Alberta OHS Act (2018)

Psychosocial Hazard Obligations

Section 2(1) of the Alberta Occupational Health and Safety Act requires employers to ensure health, safety, and welfare of workers. Psychosocial hazards are included. Documented risk signals not acted upon constitute a due diligence failure.

Alberta Human Rights Act

Mental Health as Protected Ground

Mental health conditions including burnout-triggered disabilities are protected under Alberta human rights legislation. Failure to identify and respond to documented psychosocial hazards creates human rights liability for employers.

Founder

Sarah Scahill

MHS · BN · RN · CDMP · CPHR Candidate · CCHNC-C

Master of Health Studies — Health Research & Leadership

Registered Nurse — 15+ years frontline and leadership

Certified Disability Management Professional

Certified Professional in Human Resources (Candidate)

Certified Holistic Nurse Coach

Councillor, College of Registered Nurses of Alberta

Founder & CEO, NervePoint Health Technologies Inc.

Founder, ExecRN Integrative Health Solutions

NervePoint was built by someone who has lived the gap it is trying to close. Sarah Scahill has spent fifteen years as a frontline nurse, a senior HR leader in unionized public-sector environments, a disability manager, a holistic nurse coach, and a provincial regulatory governor — simultaneously navigating the clinical realities of burnout, the legal architecture of occupational health, and the organizational pressure to perform without adequate measurement infrastructure. Her graduate research focused specifically on burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress in caring professions — the three constructs NervePoint was built to measure.

NervePoint is the answer to a question Sarah has asked across every role she has held: if the research has known this was preventable for forty years, why do organizations still have no way to see it coming?

The answer, she concluded, was not a lack of evidence. It was a failure to build the bridge between validated clinical science and organizational decision-making — with the privacy architecture that makes honest data possible.

Research · Funding · Partnership

We are building something
that has not existed before.
We are looking for partners
who understand why.

NervePoint is actively engaged in research, grant development, and partnership conversations. If you are a funder, researcher, health system leader, regulator, or organizational partner, we would like to hear from you.

Research Collaboration

We are building a validated, peer-reviewed evidence base. We welcome conversation with academic partners, clinical researchers, and institutional review bodies.

Funding & Innovation Partners

NervePoint is actively seeking innovation funding partnerships aligned with Canadian health system sustainability, workforce strategy, and occupational health mandates.

Pilot Organizations

We are identifying healthcare, education, and public sector organizations for early deployment partnerships. Pilot participants shape the platform's real-world validation.

Policy & Regulatory Alignment

NervePoint's regulatory mapping and legislative architecture invites collaboration with policy bodies, health authorities, and occupational health standards organizations.

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Burnout is not a character flaw.It is a measurable signal.