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10 Steps To Staff Stability, Part 1
This article provides the first five steps in achieving staff stability through a hiring and welcoming process to establish positive connections with new employees in the first six months.
Web link    Date Added: 03/21/2022    Date Last Modified: Mar 2 2023 9:07AM  
Engaging Staff in Individualizing Care
The Pioneer Network Starter Toolkit is a product of the Pioneer Network's National Learning Collaborative on Using the MDS as an Engine for High Quality Individualized Care. It provides information on how 49 nursing homes were able to accelerate their improvement by using four key organizational practices: consistent assignment, shift huddles, involving CNAs in care planning and Quality Improvement (QI) closest to the resident.
Web link    Date Added: 09/26/2013    Date Last Modified: Mar 2 2023 9:08AM  
Getting to Know You Staffing Tool
Employee “value” is a culture-building tool in which you identify the motivating values of an employee and commit to exchanging those values with them as their supervisor. Download this Currency Questionnaire to get started.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/07/2023    Date Last Modified: Sep 11 2023 4:29PM  
Guide to Improving Nursing Home Employee Satisfaction
This employee satisfaction guide from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services helps nursing homes determine the most appropriate and helpful resources to use to address the identified improvement opportunities found in the employee satisfaction survey. Note, the employee satisfaction survey is available in CMPRP-Toolkit 2 – Employee Satisfaction Survey (ZIP).
Web link    Date Added: 01/26/2020    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:03AM  
How to Boost Nursing Home Staff Morale
This tool shows how to measure and improve staff morale with proven strategies and ideas to celebrate and motivate your staff.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 11/10/2023    Date Last Modified: Nov 10 2023 2:28PM  
LTC Connect: Staff Culture, Stability and Retention
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.
Video    Date Added: 07/25/2023    Date Last Modified: Aug 10 2023 8:51AM  
New Employee Communication and Feedback Tool
This tool aids in facilitating two-way communication between leadership/supervisors and employees.
Microsoft Excel    Date Added: 03/09/2022    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:04AM  
Nursing Home Connect: How to Lead Effective Educational Sessions
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.
WebEx    Date Added: 02/09/2024    Date Last Modified: Feb 14 2024 10:50AM  
Nursing Home Office Hours – Staffing Solutions to Hire, Retain and Keep Staff Happy
In this March 7, 2023, recording, TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) specialists share best practices regarding nursing home staffing and discuss how vital organizational culture is to staff satisfaction and morale. We also provide an update on regional bivalent vaccination rates.
Video    Date Added: 03/08/2023    Date Last Modified: Mar 8 2023 12:46PM  
Nursing Home Office Hours: Recruitment, Hiring and Retention of Staff
This May 10, 2022, webinar recording discusses strategies for successful recruitment, hiring and retention of staff for long-term care facilities during COVID-19. In addition to TMF specialists, nursing facility leaders also share specific suggestions.
Video    Date Added: 05/11/2022    Date Last Modified: May 11 2022 7:31AM  
Nursing Home Secrets to Reduce Staff Turnover: Brightpointe at Lytle Lake Success Story
It is no secret that high staff turnover in nursing homes is a widespread crisis. Here is how one skilled nursing facility in Abilene, Texas, reduced its nursing aide turnover rate from 90% to 21% in two months.
Web link    Date Added: 05/09/2022    Date Last Modified: Jul 15 2022 3:42PM  
Nursing Home Staffing Solutions Summary
TMF’s Nursing Home team held a webinar discussion on Staffing Challenges and Solutions During COVID-19 on March 1, 2022. Here are some staffing solutions generated from nursing home administrators, directors of nursing and others who participated.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/15/2022    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:07AM  
Nursing Home Success Story: It Takes a Neighborhood to Build Retention
Coronado Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Administrator Jay Hobbs explains how he implemented action teams and other improvements to solve the problem of staff retention.
Web link    Date Added: 05/20/2022    Date Last Modified: Jul 15 2022 3:43PM  
Patient Safety: Turnover Turnaround
This educational video from Quality Insights of Pennsylvania focuses on reducing staff turnover in nursing homes.
Video    Date Added: 01/19/2012    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:07AM  
Resident Satisfaction Survey
TMF Health Quality Institute has created this document to allow nursing homes to gather feedback from residents and their families. Nursing homes that gather feedback are encouraged to analyze the data from the surveys to see what improvements and modifications can be made. Nursing homes are also encouraged to work with their Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement (QAPI) teams to outline a plan to implement needed changes.
Microsoft Excel    Date Added: 06/16/2020    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:08AM  
Staff Satisfaction Survey
TMF QIN-QIO created this document to allow nursing homes to gather feedback from their staff. Nursing homes that gather feedback are encouraged to analyze the data from the surveys to see what improvements and modifications can be made. Nursing homes are also encouraged to work with their Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement teams to outline a plan to implement needed changes.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 11/18/2020    Date Last Modified: Mar 17 2022 11:08AM  
How to Boost Nursing Home Staff Morale — Spanish for Puerto Rico
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.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 11/30/2023    Date Last Modified: Nov 30 2023 3:53PM  
How to Boost Nursing Home Staff Morale — U.S. Spanish
This U.S. Spanish tool shows how to measure and improve staff morale with proven strategies and ideas to celebrate and motivate your staff.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 11/30/2023    Date Last Modified: Nov 30 2023 3:52PM