FOSTERING COMPASSIONATE CAREGIVING USING CNA TRAINING

Samantha Cotton · 2024

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Samantha Cotton describes a training program for nursing aides in a 2024 paper. Aides give most daily care to people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Behavior changes in those patients can be hard to handle well. The program sits at the University of Louisville and has federal backing.

Training mixes short online lessons that aides take at their own pace. Hands on workshops add practice with real care scenes. A phone app gives quick guidance during shifts on the floor. So far, the program has trained one hundred seventy five aides. Tests before and after showed clear gains in knowledge and confidence. Cotton presents the model as one that other sites could scale up.

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CREATORSamantha Cotton
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE2 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11689940

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