Check out the newest additions to PHI’s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce:

Increasing staff retention – A fact sheet from the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign.

The interplay of CNAs’ views of residents and nursing home environments – Identifies CNAs’ perspectives of nursing home residents and how these perspectives translate into care practices.

Growing your staff – Reports on several nursing homes’ efforts to address the nursing and direct-care workforce shortages.

An information-based approach to staff efficiency – This article advocates reorganization of workflow and realignment of workload to address retention and attendance problems in nursing homes.

PHI’s National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce is a national online library for people in search of solutions to the direct-care staffing crisis in long-term care. It houses  over 800 articles, reports, issue briefs, and fact sheets on the direct-care workforce.