CNAs Lead Their Own Department - Enclave Principle Defined on the Chill Spot / CNA-TV
Channel: CNA TV - NAHCA Broadcasting Network
Date: 02/12/2019

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There is not a crisis I found yet that happens in nursing homes that CNAs can't solve.

Hey good morning welcome to the chill spot.

And finally after all these years we're getting an opportunity with Americare and Villa healthcare to prove that CNAs can really change a nursing home.

And so what what we're doing really it's called the enclave principle.

The word enclave in itself means a territory within a territory.

So let's think of the nursing home as the territory.

The enclave the CNAs form their own department.

They become an enclave within the territory a territory within the territory.

Or if you want to break it down even further.

There is a big nursing department inside the nursing home and so you've got this big nursing department and now you have yet another territory we're creating called a CNA department where CNAs are leaders of their department.

We have a position called Director of nursing assistant that CNAs apply for when we come to the center.

Is that a DNA?

I just got off the phone today as a matter of fact on how much the agency has gone down in the first building in Michigan that we got to back in June and started developing and implementing the enclave principle.

We develop depending on the size of the care center anywhere from six to twelve certified preceptors, so they take the NAHCA certified preceptor course which is about a two week online course when they have completed it successfully and pass the final examination.

It is how have I welcomed you to our center to our organization to our company and the preceptors know this because they've been through the class they know the objective and the mission that this enclave principle is all about.

But another example is like oftentimes they'll say to nursing get the falls down we have too many resident falls we have falls with fractures we've got to reduce the falls so falls go down and nursing gets the credit.  Well who really reduced the falls our CNA audience knows who reduced the falls they did but nursing got the credit and I don't know about all CNAs, but I know many and myself I never I wasn't a nurse so in nursing got the credit I didn't really feel it was coming to me as a CNA so with the CNA departments we have the ability we have scoreboards I should have given one to Gary so he could put it up here on the screen because our Careforce Elite we do this under CareForce Elite but it is a creation enclave principle was developed largely out of NAHCA and CareForce Elite is the company that takes it out that we also own NAHCAs sister company CareForce Elite is the is the team that implements it but it's largely all born out of NAHCAs laboratory so to speak our twenty five years boots on the ground in facilities working with CNAs and nurses.

However the relationship between a CNA resident is so misunderstood in this nation I have have said CNAs are the most important but I say that relationship between the resident and the CNA is the most important relationship.

The important thing is this CNAs can solve the staffing crisis. They can solve the care crisis. They can solve the fall crisis. They can solve the pressure ulcer crisis. There's not a crisis I've found yet that happens in nursing homes that CNAs can't solve.

And they're our largest employee group.

We just came off Thanksgiving and I am still very thankful for the fact that we've got a company like Americare health systems and Villa healthcare. Americare is a Missouri based corporation with both assisted living and skilled nursing and Villa health care's at a Skokie Illinois.