PHI and the Eden Alternative have formed an official alliance that will bring the PHI Coaching ApproachSM to the international community of Eden enthusiasts. Read the full story
Posted on 24 June 2010.
PHI and the Eden Alternative have formed an official alliance that will bring the PHI Coaching ApproachSM to the international community of Eden enthusiasts. Read the full story
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Posted on 17 June 2010.
National leaders in gerontological nursing education and culture change participated in a two-day PHI Coaching SupervisionSM seminar in New York City in early June. Read the full story
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Posted on 08 September 2009.
“I think the movement to improve the nursing home as a workplace and the movement to improve it as a place to live are coming together in a very positive way, so that a nursing home can be both a better place to live and to work,” says Thomas Konrad. “I think those tendencies reinforce each other.”
Konrad is one of the authors of the Workplace Interventions, Turnover, and Quality of Care Report (pdf) released in June 2009 that details the effects of three distinct workplace interventions aimed at improving staff turnover rates and quality of care in North Carolina’s nursing homes.
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Posted on 12 June 2009.
A report titled Nurses Involvement in Nursing Home Culture Change: Overcoming Barriers, Advancing Opportunities has been released by The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University College of Nursing.
The paper summarizes a 2008 expert panel discussion convened by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing in collaboration with the Coalition for Geriatric Nursing Organizations and the Pioneer Network. PHI Director of Organizational Culture Change Susan Misiorski represented Pioneer Network and PHI at the discussion. Read the full story
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Posted on 02 October 2008.
Graduates of the PHI coaching supervision train-the-trainer program recently gathered outside Philadelphia to share their skills, ideas and experiences at a peer gathering sponsored by PHI’s Center for Coaching Supervision and Leadership (CCSL). The gathering took place Sept. 17 and 18 at the Villanova Conference Center.
Over 50 participants from as far away as Oregon and North Carolina traveled to Pennsylvania to deepen their coaching supervision skills and share lessons learned. Trainers were able to connect with others who were at various stages of implementing coaching supervision, and to participate in skill-building workshops. Read the full story
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