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Teaching Others about Culture Change

Open Sharing in Learning Circles

Home/homelessness exercise

“Look at me” Video

How to Use Praise Effectively

How to (and how not to) introduce the idea of changing the ways care is given at night

Template for communicating progress with a storyboard

Watch Your Language!

Principles of care

What would you like to do next?

Review ideas for changing culture

Are you ready to create change?

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Tools for education and communication

 

Use the communication tools to facilitate discussion among staff, residents, and families. Help staff members see nursing home life from the resident’s point of view, and inspire change with the education tools in this section.

An easy way to help people understand the need for change is by asking questions that relate to one’s perceptions of home. “If I lived here, what would I need to feel at home?”  “What does home mean to me?” In this document, read more about some helpful tools at your disposal.

                                        PDF (104 KB)                       Microsoft Word (133 KB)

Learning circles provide a structured way of conversation that ensures everyone is part of the sharing and everyone has the opportunity to speak once before anyone speaks again.  This document provides guidance for facilitating learning circles.  PDF (39 KB)               Microsoft Word (124 KB)

With this exercise, staff members will examine what makes a home, and conversely, what makes a person homeless.  They will then take time to examine the lives of residents and decide whether they are living more “at home” or “homeless.”  PDF (138 KB)                     Microsoft Word (141 KB)

<       Look at me” Video

(Length: 3:49)  A video that paints the portrait of one resident of a nursing home, reviewing his life that led him to where he is today.    Show this video with a brief discussion afterwards or in conjunction with the home vs. homelessness exercise.  From the Veterans Administration, used with permission.            MPG Video (53.1 MB)

<      How to Use Praise Effectively

Use this guide to lead a brief discussion on the power of praise that is timely, specific, sincere, proportional, and positive.

                                PDF (37 KB)                         Microsoft Word (123 KB)

A role-playing exercise that illustrates a good way and a bad way to introduce change to nightcare staff members.

                                        PDF (51 KB)                         Microsoft Word (228 KB)

Use this template to create a storyboard.  A storyboard communicates positive changes that have occurred within your organization, the next steps in the project and lessons learned along the way.

                                        PDF (62 KB)         Microsoft PowerPoint (297 KB)

This teaching guide and worksheet helps nursing home staff learn new language.  If we truly want to create homes for residents, staff, and families, we should use language we’d use in our own homes and the community at large.    PDF (39 KB)                         Microsoft Word (127 KB)

A sample of one nursing home’s standard, written principles of care and values.  From Primaris and Nazareth Living Center, used with permission.

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Publication No. 8001-OH-057-3/2006.  This resource was prepared by Ohio KePRO, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Ohio, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy.