Staffing Strategies Resource Center

Indiana Healthcare Leadership Conference on Staffing Strategies

In September 2009, the Indiana Department of Health conducted a Healthcare Leadership Conference for nursing homes leadership, long term care provider associations, consumer advocate organizations, and state surveyors with a focus on staffing strategies. The following are resources and tools provided at the conference:

• The Influence of Top Management in Long-Term Care
• University of Indianapolis: Study of Turnover and Training in Indiana's Long-Term Care Facilities
• Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes
  • Nursing Homes: Resources
  • Top 10 Ideas to Involve All Staff in Advancing Excellence
  • Implementation Guide: Goal 7 - Increasing Staff Retention
  • Implementation Guide: Goal 8 - Improving Consistent Assignment of Nursing Home Staff
• Advancing Excellence in America's Nursing Homes
  • Implementing Change in Long-Term Care - A Practical Guide to Transformation
• Texas Nursing Home Quality Initiative Coalition
  • Change Ideas for On-The-Job Support for New Workers
  • Change Ideas for Consistent Assignment
  • Change Ideas for Orientation
  • Workforce Retention
    • Exit Interviews
    • Analyzing and Mapping Turnover
• Texas Nursing Home Quality Initiative Coalition - Articles
  • Effective Strategies for New Staff Orientation
  • Is High or Low Staff Turnover Characteristic of Your Nursing Home?
  • Effects of Leadership and Management on Staff Turnover
  • Valuing and Respecting Caregivers and Their Needs
  • Basic, Positive Human Resource Policies
  • Motivational Work Organization and Care Practices
  • Sufficient Staff Ratios and Support for High Quality Care
• Rhode Island Department of Health and Quality Partners of Rhode Island
  • Individualized Care - Project Team Workbook
• A Presentation to the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans
  • "Recruitment and Retention of Paraprofessionals" - June 28, 2007
• Turnover, Retention and Recruitment Articles
  • "Getting to the Bottom of CNA Turnover" - Dr. Jules Rosen
  • "Job Satisfaction of Nurse Aides in Nursing Homes: Intent to Leave and Turnover" - Dr. Nicholas Castle, Dr. John Engberg, Dr. Ruth Anderson, and Aiju Men
  • "Effect of Staff Turnover on Staffing: A Closer Look at Registered Nurses, Licensed Vocational Nurses, and Certified Nursing Assistants" - Bita Kash, Dr. Nicholas Castle, George Naufal, and Dr. Catherine Hawes
  • "Turnover Begets Turnover" - Dr. Nicholas Castle
  • "Staff Turnover and Quality of Care in Nursing Homes" - Dr. Nicholas Castle and Dr. John Engberg
  • "Turnover Reinterpreted - CNAs Talk About Why They Leave" - Dr. Barbara Bowers, Sarah Esmond, and Dr. Nora Jacobson
  • "Determinants of Satisfaction and Turnover Among Nursing Assistants - The Results of a Statewide Survey" - Dr. Sharon Parsons, Dr. William Simmons, Katherine Penn, and Melanie Furlough
• Human Resources - Articles
  • Top Ten Ways to Retain Your Great Employees - Susan M. Heathfield
  • Nine Recruiting and Selection Tips to Ensure Successful Hiring - Dr. David Meyer
  • Performance Management Process Checklist - Susan M. Heathfield
  • Interview Questions and Answers - Alison Doyle