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Growing Strong Roots: Peer Mentoring of CNAs to Enhance Retention and Care

This comprehensive training package provides all the information and materials needed to create an effective, replicable, and sustainable peer mentoring program for new CNAs that will encourage both their retention and commitment to explicit caring values in long term care.  Order Form

Service Learning in Elder Care

Published in 1996, this manual provides all the information a college needs to establish a service learning program focused on elder care.

Promoting Mental Wellness in Elder Care

Just Published in 1997, this manual (jointly developed by the FLTC and the Cornell Applied Gerontology Research Institute) describes results from a national survey of mental wellness programs and services for residents, staff, and families in the nursing home setting.

Upgrading Nursing Home LPNs with the Regents College Model

Discusses the management issues involved in using the nursing home work site as a resource for LPNs who wish to become RNs without attending a traditional school of nursing by enrolling in Regents College.

CNA Stress-Reducing Workshop

A four-session in service training kit for a stress-reducing workshop for CNAs is available for downloading at the site of NYAHSA member The Sephardic Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Brooklyn New York http://www.sephardichome.org . The workshop, developed by Dr. Nanette Kramer and Dr. Michael Smith, was supported by the New York State Department of Health and tested at the Sephardic Home and at Peninsula Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation, Far Rockaway, New York, another NYAHSA member.

Geriatric Respite Care

A resource to help providers and policy makers answer the question, “How can respite be provided in the best way possible?”
Each session deals with a different type of stress CNAs face: managing stress in the direct care of residents, managing stress in relating to residents' families; managing stress in working with other staff, and managing stress in dealing with personal problems at work. This training session is set up so that the CNAs themselves conduct the training. The in-service education director has an important part in facilitating the four sessions.