The occupational well-being of educators is not only essential for educators themselves, but also affects the well-being of their students and the whole of society regarding having a healthy and productive workforce. The main aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a digital occupational well-being intervention to support the occupational well-being of nurse educators.

The development PHASE I (2019-2022), consisted of a national cross-sectional occupational well-being survey study among health and social care educators in Finland (n=552) and a systematic review (n=13 studies) to dis-cover occupational well-being interventions among educators. The SHINE (Self-Help INtervention for Educators) was developed and implemented in-cluding self-conductive exercises done during working hours with workplace support. In the evaluation, PHASE II (2022-2023), the effectiveness of SHINE was tested on resource-workload-balance (self-evaluated and heart rate variability, HRV), overall occupational and general well-being, physical activity, recovery, self-regulation and workplace support among nurse educa-tors using a controlled quasi-experimental study (intervention group n=37, control group n=40). In addition, the process evaluation of the usability and utility of SHINE was conducted with a cross-sectional survey design among the intervention group. The data were analysed statistically and using content analysis.

As a result, there were found the need to support occupational well-being, especially towards managing mental workload and workplace support to en-hance occupational well-being by promoting activities during working hours. Beneficial self-conductive interventions to promote personal resources of educators were identified, where were used self-conductive exercises such as walking and self-regulation of personal resources. SHINE was found effective on promoting recovery and general well-being between groups comparison but didn’t find statistically effects on resource-workload-balance. SHINE was found easy to use and applicable during working hours. It was seen as useful for promoting physical activity, personal resources, recovery experiences and increasing breaks.

As a conclusion, SHINE could support occupational well-being of nurse educators, promoting well-being activities during working hours possible to implement as part of everyday working life and promoting recovery at work.