The October 2009 issue of The Gerontologist features two studies that use data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS). Read the full story

Higher wages, more hours, and travel-cost reimbursement are the strongest predictors of turnover among Maine home care workers, according to a study published in the October 2009 issue of The Gerontologist. Read the full story

A new American Health Care Association (AHCA) paper presents more than 100 strategies that are designed to improve staff satisfaction among long-term care workers, including direct-care staff, in nursing homes. Read the full story

As the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign enters its second year, an overhaul of its original eight goals has been announced. Three of these goals relate directly to the workforce. Read the full story

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.

The July issue of The Gerontologist featured the results of the Better Jobs Better Care initiative, the four-year $15.5 million research and demonstration project that was the largest initiative in the nation ever created to address the high vacancy and turnover rates of direct-care workers by improving the quality of direct-care jobs. Read the full story