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Davies, Susan – 1996
The principles of action research were used to identify the reasons for substandard patient care in two long-term care facilities in Quebec; then, a 20-hour inservice education course for nurse managers at the facilities was developed, presented, and evaluated. Fifteen nurse managers (1 director of nursing, 12 health care managers, and 2 nurse…
Descriptors: Action Research, Allied Health Occupations Education, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Moller, Valerie – 1990
This report discusses findings from a review of a plan of the South African KwaMashu Christian Care Society (KMCCS) for introducing an educare program in which active older women give in-service training to grandmothers and other childminders who look after preschool children at home. Before launching the proposed program, a KMCCS committee…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Community Attitudes
Hartley, Celia L.; And Others – 1992
This document features four annual reports from 1988-89 to 1991-92 on a community college-nursing home partnership project undertaken by Shoreline Community College (SCC), in Washington. Each report provides a brief summary of the project and describes actions undertaken to achieve the following project objectives: (1) the establishment of…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Colleges, Community Health Services, Curriculum Development
Towne, Violet A. – 1990
The collaboration between the continuing education arm of the State University of New York Institute of Technology at Utica/Rome and the New York Association for Long Term Care Administrators in the design, development and delivery of educational programs for nursing home and adult home administrators in New York State is reported. Program content…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Agency Role, Contracts, Cooperative Programs
Seton Hill Coll., Greensburg, PA. – 1987
This curriculum for training geriatric service workers is designed to incorporate additional communication and group skills along with the basic knowledge and skills necessary to work with older adults. The curriculum is organized in four modules. Each module is assigned a time frame and a credit unit base. The modules are divided into four major…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Allied Health Occupations, Communication Skills, Competency Based Education
Plummer, Nancy – 1983
This module on tube feedings is intended for use in inservice or continuing education programs for persons who work in long-term care. Instructor information, including teaching suggestions and a listing of recommended audiovisual materials and their sources appear first. The module goal and objectives are then provided. A brief discussion follows…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Behavioral Objectives, Continuing Education
McKinnon, Cole; Capone, Martha – 1999
Woburn Nursing Center (WNC), a private nursing home owned and operated by Salter Healthcare Services (SHS), developed an integrated, comprehensive staff development program and handbook. A literature review focused on staff needs, responsible agent, and handbook development. The following activities were undertaken: a review of ERIC documents,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cooks, Dietitians, Housekeepers
McKinnon, Cole; Friberg, Laura; McKillop, Linda; Walsh, Marsha – 1999
With an increasingly smaller base of potential employees in long-term care facilities, especially Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), and an increasingly larger population of elderly persons needing their services, Salter Healthcare Services in Massachusetts has developed plans for retaining CNAs. Although the Salter Corporation has been…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Continuing Education, Employer Employee Relationship
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Castle, Nicholas G. – Gerontologist, 2003
Purpose: This study examined whether providing outcomes information to 120 nursing homes facilitated improvements in quality over a 12-month period, as compared with 1,171 facilities not receiving this information. The outcomes information provided consisted of a report mailed to administrators that examined six measures of care quality. These…
Descriptors: Intervention, Nursing Homes, Least Squares Statistics, Outcomes of Treatment
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. Curriculum and Instructional Materials Center. – 1994
This packet contains an instructor's manual, an instructor's resource package, and a student workbook for a course for medication administration technicians in Oklahoma. The course consists of four units of instruction that cover the following: (1) exploring professional, ethical and legal issues; (2) administering medication; (3) document…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Course Content, Job Skills
Gibson, Elaine – 1982
A pathological phenomenon repeatedly observed in some families is the most desperate efforts toward the most unpleasable parents made by the most rejected middle-aged children. Counselors working with these families find the daughters compulsively seeking the affection and approval their mothers have historically withheld. The aged and even senile…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Case Studies, Counselor Client Relationship, Daughters
Older Women's League, Washington, DC. – 1989
Long-term care workers (those who are paid to provide custodial care for long-term patients in nursing homes or at home) must care for a growing number of increasingly disabled or dependent persons. They are working for agencies and institutions under growing pressure to increase productivity. They face new training and competency requirements,…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Practices, Futures (of Society)
Basuel, Terry – 1986
Designed as part of a 40-hour course on adult residential care homes (ARCH's), this lesson plan was developed to explain the importance of and correct procedures for charting (i.e., keeping a written record of observations and care of ARCH residents). The objectives of the 50-minute lesson are to enable students to: (1) list reasons why the…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Audiovisual Aids, Behavior Patterns, Community Colleges
Barker, Ellen M. – 1985
This workshop unit is intended to enable workshop participants to understand the principles of combining two or more therapeutic diets and to write diet combinations. It is a revised workshop containing the "Liberalized Geriatric Diet Policies for Long-Term Care Facilities." Contents include unit and specific objectives, suggested…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Course Descriptions, Dietetics, Dietitians
Morris, Sara; Michael, Nancy, Ed. – 1983
This module on administering eye medications is intended for use in inservice or continuing education programs for persons who administer medications in long-term care facilities. Instructor information, including teaching suggestions, and a listing of recommended audiovisual materials and their sources appear first. A brief discussion follows of…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Allied Health Personnel, Behavioral Objectives, Continuing Education
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