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Four NYC Nursing Homes Able to Participate in
“Creating Quality in New York City Nursing Homes by Mentoring Charge Nurses”

 

FLTC awarded $40,000 grant from the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation entitled “Creating Quality in New York City Nursing Homes by Mentoring Charge Nurses”. The FLTC will be offering training on leadership, management and supervision to charge nurses in four New York City nursing homes.

The award from the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation will enable four facilities to join the 10 nursing homes in a similar project funded by the NYS DOH awarded to Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Health and Rehabilitation Center called “Peer Mentoring of LTC Charge Nurses.” The FLTC will manage the grant for this facility and conduct all training.

Because of the small size of the $40,000 grant, participating nursing homes in the new grant will not receive any backfill funds for their participating nurses during training or mentoring time, but will receive the same training and preparation for the training as the participants in the NYS DOH grant.

Past research from two different FLTC projects focused on peer mentoring of new CNAs has shown a consistent increase of the turnover rate of new CNAs. One of the major rationales for the project is that a similar peer mentoring program for charge nurses will be equally effective. In one project, backfill was available to participating facilities; in the other no backfill was available. We hope to show that the project will again be effective in retaining staff whether or not backfill was used.