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Long-Term Care Resources for

LEAP Specialists

We are pleased to offer this exclusive web page just to our LEAP Specialists, where you'll learn more about long-term care resources and workforce information that can support your important role in moving your organization ahead in culture change and in providing person-centered, relationship-building quality care!

We will be updating this page regularly with new resources, so be sure to visit often!

License Renewals

LEAP has developed a set of training modulettes to help increase the knowledge capacity of your CNAs.  Along with these renewals comes a program created to increase the advancement opportunities by adding a Level III CNA position. 

First-Year Topics

• Recognizing and Preventing Skin Problems
• Recognizing and Managing Continence
• Pain and Palliative Care

Second-Year Topics

• Health Care Problems in Aging
• Physical and Psychological Changes
• Nutrition and Hydration

Watch for the upcoming third-year renewal coming this fall!

Workforce Websites

We'll be featuring workforce-related websites that provide great resources and additional links for you and your staff to learn more about issues and possible solutions to nursing workforce recruitment and retention.

Better Jobs, Better Care

(www.bjbc.org)

This is a program of the Institute for the Future of Aging Services, American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA). It provides valuable resources and information on long-term care workforce issues and aging trends. You can download several publications, articles, reports, and BJBC newsletters.

National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce

(www.directcareclearinghouse.org)

This is a national online "library" for those who are interested in learning more about long-term care workforce issues and solutions. Fact sheets, original research, an annual survey of state workforce initiatives, and a free biweekly online newsletter, Quality Jobs/Quality Care, are available.

Quality Jobs/Quality Care

(www.directcareclearinghouse.org/ n_newsletter.jsp)

Subscribe to this biweekly online newsletter from the National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce. It's free!

Workforce Publications

The following are workforce articles you may download and share with your staff (downloads are Adobe Acrobat PDFs).

LEAP Articles:

"Averting a Care Crisis" by Dr. Linda Hollinger-Smith, published in the March 2005 issue of Extended Care Product News.

"Changing Culture: Creating a Long-Term Impact for a Quality Long-Term Care Workforce" by Dr. Linda Hollinger-Smith and Anna Ortigara, published in the Jan-March 2004 issue of Alzheimer's Care Quarterly.

"It Takes a Village to Retain Quality Nursing Staff" by Dr. Linda Hollinger-Smith, published in the May 2003 issue of Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management.

Long-Term Care Workforce Articles:

"Act Now for Your Tomorrow," the final report of the National Commission on Nursing Workforce for Long-Term Care, published in April 2005.

"Who Will Care for Each of Us?" by Robyn I. Stone and Josh Weiner, published in 2001.