{"id":538,"date":"2024-04-04T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/?post_type=chapter&p=538"},"modified":"2024-04-04T09:21:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T13:21:52","slug":"5-2-3","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/chapter\/5-2-3\/","title":{"raw":"5.2.3 Leading: Education","rendered":"5.2.3 Leading: Education"},"content":{"raw":"Residents in LTC have more complex chronic conditions, mobility or behavioural limitations, and higher acuity, which requires knowledge and skills of geriatric syndromes, palliative care, and acute changes in order to provide the level of care needed by the resident.\r\n\r\nThe LTC home leaders ensure the workforce has access to ongoing training on safety practices, continuous learning and career development.\r\n\r\nLTC staffing ratios and skill mix should consider nursing competencies, experience, skills and education.\r\n\r\nLearning activities should align with the LTC home\u2019s mission and values, residents\u2019 needs, and the workforce member\u2019s role and plans for development.\r\n\r\nThe presence of NPs in LTC homes allows for point of care staff education, a mentoring environment and enables the multidisciplinary team to work at full scope.\r\n\r\nBarriers to Education:\r\n
\u2022Time<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 Cost<\/div>\r\n
\u2022 Healthcare reform<\/div>\r\n
\r\n\r\nNursing professional practice:\r\n
    \r\n \t
  • Enhance the professional development of LTC nurses through mentoring and planned educational offerings<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Develop a two-way communication<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Promote current nursing opportunities for growth and education.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Engage health system providers and educational institutions to create innovative education and training opportunities in LTC.<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Exploring nursing capacity barriers for all nurses to work to full scope<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nProfessional practice: Continuously upgrade education to maintain current evidence based skills and knowledge\r\n
      \r\n \t
    • Identify trends related to key practice issues related to care of older persons, activities of daily living,\u00a0 chronic disease management, mental health, regulatory changes, to integrate into educational\u00a0 programming.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Promote and implement evidence\u2010based practice<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Participation of staff in program\u2010based quality and risk management initiatives.<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Assess educational needs of staff, implement educational plans<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Develop coaching and mentoring programs in partnership with staff, and other stakeholders<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Develop and implement a tracking system of continuing education and professional development.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"

      Residents in LTC have more complex chronic conditions, mobility or behavioural limitations, and higher acuity, which requires knowledge and skills of geriatric syndromes, palliative care, and acute changes in order to provide the level of care needed by the resident.<\/p>\n

      The LTC home leaders ensure the workforce has access to ongoing training on safety practices, continuous learning and career development.<\/p>\n

      LTC staffing ratios and skill mix should consider nursing competencies, experience, skills and education.<\/p>\n

      Learning activities should align with the LTC home\u2019s mission and values, residents\u2019 needs, and the workforce member\u2019s role and plans for development.<\/p>\n

      The presence of NPs in LTC homes allows for point of care staff education, a mentoring environment and enables the multidisciplinary team to work at full scope.<\/p>\n

      Barriers to Education:<\/p>\n

      \u2022Time<\/div>\n
      \u2022 Cost<\/div>\n
      \u2022 Healthcare reform<\/div>\n
      \n

      Nursing professional practice:<\/p>\n

        \n
      • Enhance the professional development of LTC nurses through mentoring and planned educational offerings<\/li>\n
      • Develop a two-way communication<\/li>\n
      • Promote current nursing opportunities for growth and education.<\/li>\n
      • Engage health system providers and educational institutions to create innovative education and training opportunities in LTC.<\/li>\n
      • Exploring nursing capacity barriers for all nurses to work to full scope<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Professional practice: Continuously upgrade education to maintain current evidence based skills and knowledge<\/p>\n

          \n
        • Identify trends related to key practice issues related to care of older persons, activities of daily living,\u00a0 chronic disease management, mental health, regulatory changes, to integrate into educational\u00a0 programming.<\/li>\n
        • Promote and implement evidence\u2010based practice<\/li>\n
        • Participation of staff in program\u2010based quality and risk management initiatives.<\/li>\n
        • Assess educational needs of staff, implement educational plans<\/li>\n
        • Develop coaching and mentoring programs in partnership with staff, and other stakeholders<\/li>\n
        • Develop and implement a tracking system of continuing education and professional development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":517,"menu_order":8,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-538","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":59,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/59"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/538\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/npltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}