Academic Practice Partnerships
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Academic nursing-practice partnerships create systems for nurses to enhance their learning opportunities and advance their profession.
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Jobs to Careers: Transforming the Front Lines of Health Care
December 13, 2012 | Program Result Report
Jobs to Careers was a seven-year initiative that explored new ways to help front-line health care workers gain the skills and credentials they need to advance their careers.
A Configurational Approach to the Relationship Between High-Performance Work Practices and Frontline Health Care Worker Outcomes
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Using data from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the authors of this study examined how two subsystems of high-performance work practices, staff motivation and frontline empowerment, affected job satisfaction among frontline health workers and perceived quality of care at their institutions.
Jobs to Careers: Preliminary Results for Educational Institutions
January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief/Evaluation
Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care is an initiative that seeks to advance and reward the skill and career development of low-wage incumbent workers providing care and services on the front lines of our health and health care systems. The project is a $15.8-million national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in collaboration with The Hitachi Foundation and the Department of Labor.
Jobs to Careers: Preliminary Results for Healthcare Employers
January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief/Evaluation
The brief describes the Jobs to Careers work-based learning model of education and career advancement, identifies the key issues for employers, and illustrates the business case for this type of employer investment.
Evaluation of Better Jobs, Better Care
October 1, 2010 | Survey/Poll
Better Jobs Better Care sought to change public policy and management practice to improve recruitment and retention of high-quality paraprofessional direct care workers (DCW).
The Better Jobs Better Care Management Practice Change Initiatives
September 7, 2010 | Report
The Better Jobs, Better Care demonstration provided grants and technical assistance to coalitions of providers, workers, consumers, and policy makers to improve the quality of jobs of long-term care (LTC) direct care workers (DCWs), improve recruitment and retention, and strengthen capacity to meet future demand.
Health Care Jobs Up: The Future is on the Frontline
March 20, 2012 | Story
Employers need health care workers at every level of the industry, but improvements in training are needed to fuel the pipeline.
Jobs to Careers, Transforming the Frontlines of Health Care
May 9, 2011 | Toolkit
Jobs to Careers is an award-winning project of the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJF) and Hitachi Foundations, with additional support from the US Department of Labor. The five-year pilot (2006-11) is demonstrating the success of work-based learning in prov ...
Oregon Works!: Promoting Change Through Person-Directed Care
April 25, 2011 | Program Result Report
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.