Implementing Change in Long-Term Care: A Practical Guide to Transformation

The Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes is now offering nursing home staff an evidence-based guide to preparing, implementing, and sustaining clinical and cultural changes.

Implementing Change in Long-Term Care: A Practical Guide for Transformation (pdf) is a 134-page manual written by Barbara Bowers, Ph.D., R.N., Kim Nolet, B.S., Tonya Roberts, B.S., R.N., and Sarah Esmond, M.S., of the University Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing, and published in April 2009.

In its introduction, eight chapters, and four appendices, the manual offers various strategies for developing:

• person-centered care and culture change models
• strong leadership
• effective teams
• skilled staff
• preparation activities and organizational assessments
• accountability systems

Each chapter provides an overview of its topic, practical suggestions, and hands-on exercises. The manual also provides clinical training materials in the form of case studies, organizational assessment sheets, and more.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Content/Innovations/Tools/2009/Apr/Implementing-Change-in-Long-Term-Care-Bowers.aspx