Empowered work teams in long-term care
Subtitle: strategies for improving outcomes for residents and staff
By: Dale E. Yeatts, Cynthia M. Cready, Linda S. Noelker.
Contributors: Cready, Cynthia M.; Noelker, Linda S.
Publisher: Health Professions Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781932529418
Subjects: Long-term care facilities; Older people -- Long-term care; Health care teams; Long-Term Care -- methods; Aged; Patient Care Team -- organization & administration; Residential Facilities -- organization & administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What we know about empowered work teams in non-long-term care settings : lessons learned; title: The role of empowered work teams in nursing homes; title: The potential for empowered work teams in assisted living communities / Mauro Hernandez; title: The potential for empowered work teams in home care settings / Katherina A. Nikzad, Keith A. Anderson, and Joseph E. Gaugler; title: The effects of empowered work teams in the green house project / Jude Rabig; title: Effects of empowered work teams in nursing homes; title: Effects of empowerment on direct care worker performance and attitudes; title: Knowledge as empowerment : improving direct care workers' education and training / Linda S. Noelker, Farida K. Ejaz, and Heather L. Menne; title: Initial orientation for empowered work teams; title: Training managers and nurses for empowered teams in long-term care; title: Training direct care workers for empowered teams in long-term care; title: Maintaining effective teams in LTC : what must go right and what can go wrong.