Long-Term Care Train-the-Trainer Series

Schedule for each Training Day

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Refreshments
8:30 - 11:30 a.m. Training on Topic 1
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch and In-house Training Support
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Training on Topic 2

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Full-day sessions held at Tompkins Cortland Community College

Nearly every research and policy report on the long-term care workforce recommends strengthening training as a way to improve recruitment and retention as well as have a positive impact on the quality of care. A recent report by the Institute of Medicine Retooling For an Aging America: Building the Healthcare Workforce, lists “more and more effective training” as the first of a three pronged approach to improving the job quality for direct care workers.

Recognizing that staff training is essential but can be costly and require travel, this series offers the option of investing in high-quality training to be provided in your organization at times that work best for your staff. It is designed to prepare nurses and/or staff educators from long-term care organizations to implement in-house training for all staff.

Each full day session will include preparation and materials for training on two topics, support for organizing and implementing training in your organization, and an opportunity to network with other trainers and training teams over lunch.

Training topics in this series address clinical issues such as skin care and fall prevention as well as “soft skills” such as communication and stress management that are key to a positive work environment and reduced turnover. All training topics will be important for nursing staff, and many will be relevant for a broad range of staff members in your organization.

This series will be taught by experts on the various topics who have experience working with older adults and training those who provide care for this population. Cost of the train-the-trainer series is $50 per day. The fee covers training and materials on two topics and an opportunity to network with other trainers over lunch.

<sub>Training Schedule and Presenters

December 11, 2008</sub>

• Fall Prevention
  Presenter: Terri Hoppenrath, MS, PT

Understand the role of physical therapy in reducing falls. Practical strategies to reduce falls include knowing risk factors, determining which of these factors can be modified, assessing patient risk, and knowing when to refer to physical therapy.

• Teamwork
  Presenter: Granger Macy, PhD

Teamwork is essential in helping to reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed. Learn how to identify and set team goals, build and foster teamwork and build a great team through leadership skills.

_{February 12, 2009}

• Skin care
  Presenter: Kathy Brown, RN
  Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester

• Pain Assessment and Management
  Presenter: Lynda Dimitroff, BSN, RN, PhD
  Nurse Educator, Rochester, NY

Up to 80 percent of nursing home residents have pain that contributes to functional impairment and decreased quality of life. A review of recent research and statistics on pain management in long term care will be presented. Attendees will learn the importance of developing an effective, comprehensive pain assessment and management plan, and how to train staff to recognize, report and manage pain.

_{March 12, 2008}

• Communication
  Presenter: Laura Peters, MA
  Kendal at Ithaca

During this program, you will actually engage in the lively, interactive one-hour course you will eventually facilitate for your own staff. Sharing stories of our own experience, we will discuss the critical communication skills of listening, empathy, and assertiveness. You will learn how these skills can result in improved person-centered care as well as increased staff retention. Laura will also offer tips for making your own course both fun and educational.

• Working with Residents at End of Life
  Presenter: Lynda Dimitroff, BSN, RN, PhD
  Nurse Educator, Rochester, NY

When a person transitions from life into death, their body changes physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This workshop is designed to explore and understand the final stages and individual dimensions of the dying process. At the end of the workshop, the participants will:

Understand the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions of the dying process;

Understand grief and loss;

Understand the stages of grief;

Explore their personal beliefs and feelings regarding the dying process;

Develop a new comfort level with the dying process; and,

Have an understanding of how to provide appropriate care to the dying

_{April 16, 2009}

• Stress Management
  Presenter: Carmen Munsen, MSW
  Climb Higher, Ithaca, NY

Providing care to residents and clients can be very rewarding, but it also carries a lot of responsibility and is a great deal of hard work. For your health and that of your co workers, it is important to learn about stress, what can happen if it is left unchecked, and how you and your staff can manage it more effectively in your life and at work.

• Working with Dementia
  Presenter: Lindsay Lake Morgan, PhD, RN, GNP
  Decker School of Nursing

_{May 29, 2009}

• C oaching
  Presenter: Laura Peters, MA
  Kendal at Ithaca

This course will offer a brief introduction to coaching skills which, when practiced successfully, can improve staff morale and increase retention as well as managers’ job satisfaction. Coaching establishes a mutually respectful relationship between manager and staff member; the focus is more on encouragement and support than judgment or punishment. You will take the one-hour interactive course you will offer staff. We will then discuss ways to foster open communication and the relationship between coaching and discipline.

• Developing Cultural Competence in Rural Nursing
  Presenter: Lindsay Lake Morgan, PhD, RN, GNP
  Decker School of Nursing, Binghamton University

Preconceptions of rural lifestyle, health habits and culture can color the perspective of health care providers. This workshop will encourage nurses to think beyond the mythology of rural places and people, and develop a cultural competence regarding care in rural areas.

For more information contact Christine Decker, Project Coordinator, at 607-274-1604 or decker@ithaca.edu