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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.
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.
National Program
The TCAB program was led by the Institute for Health Improvement (IHI), and has generated significant information about the value of involving nurses and other front-line staff in the redesign of care delivery models and systems.
National Program
To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Lasting changes to organizational culture in nursing homes must come via gradual changes to the organizations' cultural artifacts.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Nursing students need to be taught the guiding principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led, quality improvement program, from the first day of nursing school so that their entire education prepares them to work in a collaborative, adaptive environment centered on patient care, according to this article on curriculum and TCAB.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This evaluation found that some hospitals can extensively and successfully implement the principles of Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), however, even these hospitals, which were selected due to their previous experience with innovation and quality improvement, do not necessarily sustain the TCAB processes beyond the first year.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Implementing Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), a nurse-led quality initiative which aims to create rapid improvement, resulted in large gains in outcomes and large savings in costs, according to two executives with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, one of the hospitals participating in the TCAB pilot program.
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.
November 2, 2009 | Story
Shalala and Hassmiller discuss the future of nursing.