Better Jobs, Better Care
Does your facility currently have openings for CNAs? Are you looking for ways to attract and retain talented professionals? Do you ever feel like there is a shortage of qualified professionals in long-term care?
Over the past four years these questions have been studies by the Institute for the Future of Aging Services (IFAS). They have developed the Better Jobs Better Care program.
According to their Web site (www.bjbc.org): "Better Jobs Better Care is a research and demonstration program, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies. The program seeks to achieve changes in long-term care policy and practice that help to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among direct care staff across the spectrum of long-term care settings and contribute to improved workforce quality."
The Better Jobs Better Care web site is a great resource to learn more about ways to support your staff. They offer a free e-newsletter that shares stories of LTC professionals, tools, research findings, approaches to recruiting and retaining talented staff and other resources. There is a video called "Stand Up and Tell Them" which is a documentary of interviews with HHAs and CNAs who reflect on the challenges they face in their work.
I urge you to visit this site and learn more about key research findings and how these findings impact your staff, residents and facility.