Action Pact

Intensive

Fundamentals of Household Leadership

TO REGISTER

Contact Info:

Brendan O`Naughton, Action Pact
414-258-3649
[email protected]

When

Kansas City Area

None scheduled at this time

ABOUT THIS COURSE

No one wants to live in a nursing home. Moving to a nursing home is viewed by most elders and
much of society as going to a place to die, a place that requires residents to relinquish their control
over their daily lives, a place that reduces its ‘homeless’ inhabitants to bingo, wheelchairs and food
served on trays. Not enough people want to work in a nursing home either – employee turnover often
hovers around 100% annually; shortage of nurses and CNAs often result in understaffed shifts, staff
working double shifts and agency staff – often total strangers to the residents – providing personal
care.

The Household Model as a way of designing the physical environment and the organizational
structure, fosters a deep transformation where residents live a good life and staff are happy and
involved. A resident living in a household in a licensed skilled nursing facility once told me: “I had
a choice when I came here. I could come here or could go to a nursing home. Thank God I chose
here.” And that’s the way it is. Households may still be licensed as skilled nursing, but they are not
defined by the words ‘nursing home’. Instead they create an atmosphere of a good daily life, filled
with choice and accessibility. Of both privacy and community – and the ability to move between the
two as desired. Of independence and interdependence. Of both house and home.

This workshop details the life that is within our power to create. A life of both house and home. A
life that fosters daily life as we all know it. Getting up and going to bed when desired. Bathing how
and when one prefers. Being with friends, and being alone at one’s desire. Engaging in daily life –
whether cleaning, cooking, reading, playing, befriending – as one chooses. Being able to eat when
and what one chooses. Life can be good in a household. This workshop focuses the participants on
the role that they can play to create this environment and on the skills that they need to lead, coach,
guide and problem-solve. (This course is less in-depth and shorter than our Household Leader Intensive.)

UPON COMPLETION, PARTICIPANTS WILL BE ABLE TO:

List the Elements of households and discuss how to develop and strengthen each element in the household
Broadly understand their Performance Management responsibilities
Identify the leadership and team skills that they need as individuals and put a self-growth plan in place for growing this skill set
List the hard and soft skills of versatile work in the households, and identify how their organization is tackling this work
Experience and practice communication, team and community skills including learning circle, team leadership model, conflict management, coaching, expressing clearly, facilitating relationships
Indicate the key competencies necessary in the household and how to foster them
Describe why dining and kitchen life is central to life in the household and how they might encourage its development;
Realize the potential of daily life in the household through an exploration of life enhancement skills
Define a self-led team, evaluate themselves in relation to growing team, and formulate an action plan for on-going development of a self-led team approach

DOWNLOAD THE AGENDA HERE

Educational credits: This educational offering has been reviewed by the National Continuing Education Review Service (NCERS) of the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) and approved for 14 clock hours and 14 participant hours.

Tuition: $1100.

Cancellations must be requested at least two weeks prior to the workshop. No refunds will be issued after that point. All refunds are subject to a 20% processing fee.

If you wish to transfer your registration to another session, you may do so at no charge, but we must know at least two weeks in advance so we can attempt to fill your seat. Transfers in the last two weeks before the session are only allowed if an annual state survey is in progress at your facility. Transfers within the two weeks prior to the event are subject to a surcharge of 20%.

Substitutions (sending a different person to take your place) are always accepted at no charge, even at the last minute.