In this video a certified nursing assistant shares her personal story of overcoming vaccine-related fears, deciding to take the vaccine, and encouraging her colleagues to do the same.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) developed toolkits to aid nursing home teams with improving staff competency and employee satisfaction. There are three toolkits in this series.
This guidance for infection prevention and control for healthcare personnel during COVID-19 applies to all U.S. settings where healthcare is delivered, including home health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated select healthcare infection prevention and control (IPC) recommendations in response to COVID-19 vaccination, which are now summarized in this guidance.
This article features answers to common questions on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This brief video from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) highlights long-term care staff who moved from being initially uncertain about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to accepting it and encouraging their peers to do the same.
The National Association of Health Care Assistants website features resources for CNAs to help them enhance quality of life and care for older adults and offers opportunities for CNAs to form strong relationships with other professionals within the long-term care system.
The National Domestic Violence Hotline provides essential tools and support to help survivors of domestic violence so they can live their lives free of abuse. This is a free resource and offers services in over 200 languages.
This quick reference summarizes CDC’s strategies to optimize personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies in healthcare settings.
This webpage features studies, policy reports, and multimedia resources on today's long-term care topics.
This webpage provides an overview of the causes and frequency of post-COVID conditions for healthcare providers.
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
To help prevent healthcare professional burnout, this website provides evidence-based recommendations.
This guide explains the principles of quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI)and provides step-by-step guidance to help staff implement QAPI in nursing homes.
Leadership can use this tool to evaluate quality assurance and performance improvement (QAPI) progress.
The resource provides an overview on the importance of respirator fit testing from a health safety and regulatory aspect and how often you should be fit tested.
This resource can be used by individual staff or healthcare teams to learn coping and resilience-building skills.This resource can be used by individual staff or healthcare teams to learn coping and resilience-building skills.
This webpage provides COVID-19 data for various populations and guidance on how to slow the spread.
The SAMHSA helpline provides 24-hour free and confidential treatment referral and information about mental and/or substance use disorders, prevention, and recovery in English and Spanish.
In this video, Marshall Rosenberg, PhD, the author of “Nonviolent Communication - A Language for Life,” explains how to listen empathically.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
The Lifeline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
This PowerPoint slideshow includes information about vaccine hesitancy and how to counteract it.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
This template newsletter article can be used to discuss your long-term care facility's experience with the COVID-19 vaccine.
A personal essay by a Black physician about her decision to participate in a vaccine trial and how that decision was complicated by histories of medical abuse and neglect of Black patients.