Ladders in Nursing Careers Program
July 1, 1999 | Program Result
Ladders in Nursing Careers (L.I.N.C.) was a career advancement and health care work force education national program.
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Developing Universal Symbols for Health Care Facilities
May 13, 2011 | Program Result
Project staff worked with a design team to create and test a set of universal graphic symbols to help people with limited proficiency in English find their way around health care facilities.
Better Jobs Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
April 27, 2011 | Program Result
Better Jobs Better Care supported changes in long-term-care policy and provider practices to reduce high vacancy and turnover rates among the paraprofessionals who provide direct care to older adults and to improve the quality of that care.
Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
The Oregon Works! project of Better Jobs Better Care aimed to improve recruitment and retention of direct-care workers at eight participating long-term-care sites. The union representing the state's independent home-care workers also participated.
Vermont: Empowering Direct-Care Workers Through Education
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
"We made sure we developed both centralized and individualized curricula that addressed the needs expressed by each participating site" in the Vermont Better Jobs, Better Care project, said the project director.
Pennsylvania: Forming Regional Coalitions in a Large State
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
The lead agency for the 40-member Pennsylvania coalition for the Better Jobs Better Care project divided the state into five regions in order to provide a local focus on long-term care worker issues in the large state.
Iowa: Giving Direct-Care Workers a Voice
April 25, 2011 | Program Result
The Iowa Better Jobs, Better Care project involved a 20-member coalition and 13 long-term-care nursing facilities and home care agencies in developing, implementing and evaluating the practice interventions.
Reinventing Management Practices in Long-Term Care
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Lasting changes to organizational culture in nursing homes must come via gradual changes to the organizations' cultural artifacts.
Who Will Keep the Public Healthy?
January 1, 2003 | Report
The Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21st Century, under the Institute of Medicine (IOM), examines the education of public health professionals and directs recommendations for strengthening public health education, research, and practice.
North Carolina's Direct Care Workforce Development Journey
July 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This case study of Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce specifically focuses on the work of one coalition, the North Carolina Partner Team, which succeeded in bringing together competing stakeholder groups. The coalition's work eventually led to the 2006 passage of the North Carolina New Organization Vision Award.