PHI Feature: Best Practice Profiles
To help providers learn from one another, PHI is creating on-line profiles of innovative practices that aim to improve the recruitment, training, and retention of direct-care workers.
A growing collection of practices profiled here among the best examples of the “quality care through quality jobs” school of thought.
PHI Feature: Case Studies
A series of case studies, entitled The Business of Caregiving, highlights exemplary employer practices in the eldercare/disability services industry.
The first in the series profiles the Edgewood Centre, a family-owned long-term care facility in New Hampshire, which embodies the “quality care through quality jobs” philosophy through a broad range of supports for its direct-care staff.
Fall Prevention Curriculum Now Available
Uniquely designed for adult learners, the Fall Prevention Awareness training curriculum helps home health aides reduce falls and minimize injury to their clients by increasing their awareness of the risk factors for common falls and by enhancing their communication skills.
SUMMARY: This segment from HeartWork profiles direct-care worker Janie Dixon.
Training Nurse Educators
Long-term care nurse leaders convened to experience the PHI Coaching Approach℠ to Supervision firsthand and discuss its implications for successfully fulfilling the nurse’s role. Find out more
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