| Project Name: |
Nurses as Leaders in Long-Term Care: Building Competencies and Commitment |
| Foundation/Lead Agency: |
Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation |
| Project Partners: |
The Senior Health Alliance of Greater Rochester (SHAGR)
The five SHAGR long-term care organizations - St. Ann’s Community, St. John’s Senior Communities, Jewish Senior Life, Friendly Senior Services, and Episcopal SeniorLife Communities.
Wegmans School of Nursing at St. John Fisher College (SJFC) |
| Project Leaders: |
Roger Gardner, Co-Principal Investigator roger@dmjf.org (585) 461-4950
Dr. Marilyn Dollinger, Co-Principal Investigator, mdollinger@sjfc.edu (585) 385-8476
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Brief Project Synopsis: |
This project focuses on the PIN topics of Long-term care, Diversity, and Collaboration and Leadership. It
addresses the Rochester area’s urgent need to build a skilled, diverse, and committed nursing workforce in long term care as we prepare for the aging of the baby boomer generation, the retirement of nurses who fall in that age group, an increasingly multicultural population, and a growing socioeconomic divide. |
Project Goals and Objectives: |
The goal is to provide nurses in long term care with the competencies needed to be successful leaders.
The objectives are to define the range of skill sets needed and implement competency building programs at the five SHAGR LTC facilities. This will be done through a discovery phase which combines a review of existing literature with local focus groups to define best practices needed to build nurse leaders, followed by the training implementation phase tailored to each facility. |
