Home Health Care Management and Practice published a review of a book targeting improving resident and staff outcomes in long-term care. Empowering Work Teams in Long-Term Care: Strategies for Improving Outcomes for Residents and Staff builds on lessons created from the research literature on work teams and applies to the delivery of long-term care. It focuses on convincing organizational leaders to include non-management staff during planning collaborations, brainstorming sessions, problem solving, and strategy implementation.
The authors recommend that the concept of the Empowered Work Team (EWT) consist of four to 10 people who are actively engaged on specific work tasks, problem solving, and other strategic activities. The makeup should be interdisciplinary in scope and involve employees at all levels who are either skilled, knowledgeable, or impacted by any aspect of the particular problem or task.
The book is organized into three parts: Part 1 discusses the potential for EWT in different long-term care environments; part 2 presents the research findings on EWTs in the Greenhouse Project and in other nursing home environments, the impact of EWT on job performance and work attitudes, and ways to enhance EWT for nursing assistants through education and training; part 3 provides tools for implementing the EWT concept within a care setting, including how to create sustainable EWT teams. For more information, visit http://www.healthpropress.com/store/yeatts-29418/index.htm.
Source: Stover-Gingerich, B. 2010. Empowered work teams in long-term care: strategies for improving outcomes for residents and staff. Home Health Care Management and Practice 22(3): 243-245.
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