What Have We Accomplished in the Workforce Arena This Fall?
A lot of work has been done by the association on your behalf this fall on Workforce.
CNA Curriculum Revision
We convened the first meeting to revise the Kansas CNA Curriculum in November. The meeting was...
LeadingAge Kansas Commissions Wage Disparity Report Between Acute and Long-Term Care
LeadingAge Kansas has commissioned the Kansas Health Institute to conduct a study on wage disparity between acute care and long-term care. KHI took data provided by the Kansas Department of Labor to conduct the...
LeadingAge National is Requesting Your Help
LeadingAge National is embarking on a plan focused on attracting people to working in the rich variety of aging services. One of their goals is to work more closely with people and organizations at...
Drawing the Best out of Our Workforce by Gene Mitchell
By my count, educational sessions on workforce and leadership topics outnumbered the sessions in any of the other educational “tracks” at the recent LeadingAge Annual Meeting & EXPO in New Orleans. If you consider the strong...
NCSBN Seeks Qualified Nurses for PN Item Development
The NCLEX is designed to test the knowledge, skills and abilities essential to safe and effective entry-level nursing practice. The process of developing one item (question) for the NCLEX-PN requires multiple steps over a...
Building a Care Team with Respect and Relationships
Bahaa Barsoum, R.N., has an uncanny ability to see great potential in people, even when they don’t see it in themselves.
The director of nursing (DON) at A.G. Rhodes Health and Rehab in Atlanta, GA, says it’s...
Promising Practices Spotted on the LeadingAge National Workforce Webpage for Orientation and Retention
Check out the following promising practices from other LeadingAge members around the country. We hope they will inspire you as you focus on workforce issues.
Mentor Program for New Employees
Challenge: Six years ago, managers at...
We Want to Feature Your Workforce Promising Practices
Do you have a workforce practice that has helped with recruitment, retention, onboarding, leadership, training, etc.? We would like to feature you in an upcoming edition of the Aging Update or our Workforce Webpage. You...
National Nursing Workforce Study
Every two years, NCSBN partners with The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers to conduct the only national-level survey specifically focused on the U.S. nursing workforce. The National Nursing Workforce Survey generates information...
Looking for Volunteers to Advise LeadingAge Kansas on Changes in Nurse Aide Curriculum
LeadingAge Kansas will host an Advisory Group of members to make recommendations for changes to the Nurse Aide Curriculum. If you are interested in serving on this group, please contact Dana Weaver. The group’s...
Framing the Workforce Crisis in the US
LeadingAge National has developed an image outlining the scope workforce crisis. Download the image for use in your organization.
Behavior-Based Interviewing
Behavior-based interviewing is a technique used in which the job candidate has the opportunity to demonstrate their potential for succeeding in the new job by providing specific examples of how they handled similar situations...