Staff Resiliency

This article from the National Institutes of Health discusses contributing factors, individual responses and tips to manage stress.

This resource from ASPR-TRACIE shares post-pandemic practices for retaining and supporting staff, characterized by intermediate and short-term needs.

By the end of this module, medical directors will know how to positively influence staff behavior in a nursing home setting. Learners gain knowledge about how to coach, support and influence staff so they can increase job retention and satisfaction and improve quality of care.

This article by Barbara Rubel at Griefwork Center Inc. discusses the differences between compassion fatigue and burnout. This article also list ways employers can recognize and understand both, and provides a case study on assessing and intervening with burnout issues.

In this recording from Oct. 22, 2024, TMF Health Quality Institute Chief Medical Officer Russell Kohl, MD, FAAFP, and Education Specialist and Health Equity Advisor Kelley Morrison, MHA, CPHQ, discuss High Reliability Culture. They explore how High Reliability Organizations (HROs) are creating environments that prioritize safety, engagement, trust and development by implementing a Just Culture, among other HRO strategies.

This tool shows how to measure and improve staff morale with proven strategies and ideas to celebrate and motivate your staff.

This Healthcare Management Forum article focuses on the important role that leadership plays in enabling the conditions for high-quality long-term care.

This Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality website provides nursing home administrators specific resources to address leadership, management and safe operations. Emotional wellness and coping skills for residents and staff, quality improvement strategies for after the COVID-19 pandemic, and training on safe operations are examples of the available resources.

This Leading Age Pandemic Playbook is a collection of lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose is to help providers prepare for and mitigate the impact of a future health crises or pandemic. Check back regularly as this is a living resource.

Use this training provided by the Texas Health and Human Services to help teach your nursing staff about time management. This document includes areas such as tips to help plan your day, barriers to successful time management, prioritization of duties, delegation, critical thinking and optimizing communication with a shift change.

This July 20, 2023, recording discusses promoting a stable work culture and staff retention. TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization specialists explore strategies to increase and sustain retention with a resilient work environment and how to create a space for staff collaboration.

This Nov. 9 webinar recording explores holiday stressors that can affect your teams, residents and families. Featured speakers Jonas Schaffer, owner/operator of Greenhurst Nursing Center in Arkansas, and Daphne Brown, director of nursing at Ozark Health in Arkansas, discuss how to combat holiday stress and improve overall care. One strategy they share is how to consider grievances as “gifts” and turn them into something wonderful.

This Dec. 14, 2023, webinar recording discusses how to notice changes in mood or energy levels in yourself or your residents during the winter. Shorter days and less daylight may trigger a chemical change in the brain, leading to symptoms of depression. This session takes a close look at seasonal affective disorder and how to prepare now to alleviate the symptoms.

This April 21, 2022, webinar recording features Wendy Bradley, LPC-MHSP, discussing organizational and personal consequences of compassion fatigue and burnout when symptoms go unresolved, and how building resilience can combat these negative effects.

View these tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to learn about practical fatigue management tips for health care leadership and health care workers.

During this Nursing Home Connect webinar recording from Jan. 25, 2024, Susan Wehry, MD, director of AgingME, discusses the physical and mental challenges faced by health care staff since the COVID-19 pandemic. As a nationally recognized geriatric psychiatrist, Dr. Wehry provides lessons and strategies on overcoming those lasting effects.

Leading an effective educational session is crucial for enhancing the skills and knowledge of the health care personnel and staff in your nursing home. Listen to this Feb. 8, 2024, TMF Quality Innovation Network webinar recording to learn how to create and lead engaging and beneficial educational sessions for your nursing home staff.

Watch this Sept. 26, 2024, Nursing Home Connect webinar recording to learn about recent updates to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) minimum staffing standards, as well as hiring strategies, resources for regulatory compliance, and effective retention tools to build reliable and dedicated care teams.

In this Oct. 24, 2023, recording, TMF QIN-QIO specialists discuss how nursing home staff can cope with their physical and emotional conditions despite COVID-19 fatigue.

Register to attend this biweekly Nursing Home Connect webinar on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024, at 1:30–2:30 p.m. CT. TMF QIN-QIO specialists will explore the importance of leadership development in long-term care facilities and emphasize how the role of trust between staff and leaders results in better resident outcomes.

This comprehensive, but not all inclusive, list of resources may be helpful for nursing homes as they work to enhance practices around recruiting and retaining staff.

Did you know that coloring can reduce stress and anxiety? Here are links to health care coloring sheets that you can print for nursing home staff and residents.

Health care leaders at nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies and other care settings are encouraged to download this handout to learn more about how to identify burnout and secondary traumatic stress in your staff, implement strategies to provide support for staff, and how to form teams to support each other.

This article from Nurse Journal offers tips on recognizing, preventing and recovering from burnout that nurses experience.

This tool in Spanish for Puerto Rico shows how to measure and improve staff morale with proven strategies and ideas to celebrate and motivate your staff.

Did you know that coloring can reduce stress and anxiety? This flyer in Spanish for Puerto Rico has links to health care coloring sheets that you can print for nursing home staff and residents.

This U.S. Spanish tool shows how to measure and improve staff morale with proven strategies and ideas to celebrate and motivate your staff.

Did you know that coloring can reduce stress and anxiety? This U.S. Spanish flyer has links to health care coloring sheets that you can print for nursing home staff and residents.