Culture Change Toolkit

http://www.aahsa.org/CultureChangeToolkit.aspx

The State Investment in Culture Change Toolkit is designed to help states initiate or expand culture change efforts in nursing homes. The toolkit is a collection of programs and activities that seven states created to support culture change initiatives in nursing homes. The materials were collected from a case study supported by The Commonwealth Fund. The goal is to provide other states with this information, so they can learn from these experiences, and to create a network among state governments and other key organizations.

The toolkit organizes the descriptions of the initiatives into three areas:

• Workforce Improvement Initiatives;
• Person-Centered Care Initiatives;
• Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives.

You can download the programs and activities either through the Full Toolkit or by accessing specific sections of the toolkit: The sections are:
• Introduction and How to Get Started
• Workforce Improvement Initiatives
• Person-Centered Care Initiatives
• Continuous Quality Improvement Initiatives
• Appendix - Resources Outside of Case Study States

The webpage also includes the Culture Change Geriatric Aide Curriculum, designed for certified nursing assistants to become a geriatric aide. The curriculum focuses on innovative nurse aide care and clinical topics such as pressure ulcers, depression, dementia and challenging behaviors, mental health and death and dying, incorporating person-centered care concepts. The curriculum can provide a template for other states interested in creating a similar curriculum.

The curriculum is divided into five main topic areas and several modules within each topic area: Person-Centered Care; Nurse Aide Tasks; Nutrition and Hydration; Challenging Behaviors; and Pain and Palliative Care. The documents listed below include the instructor manual for each topic area, the participant manual for each topic area and the PowerPoint slides that accompany each module.