This guide provides ideas and lessons learned to improve the well-being of the healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
This document describes various State-based approaches to addressing social isolation in older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This infographic checklist shares steps for decompressing after work.
This document provides guidance to long-term care facilities for making decisions about accepting hospital discharges.
This infographic for nurses provides instructions for disinfecting and entering the home after work.
These mini-modules are designed to help healthcare workers dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic relieve stress.
These emotional wellness resources for nursing home staff list programs nursing home staff can access to help cope with the stress and emotions they may be experiencing from working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This resource discusses ways nursing home staff can identify residents at high risk for deconditioning and work with them to prevent decline and improve functioning.
This resource discusses resident well-being and describes the mental impacts of social isolation and includes signs of depression and anxiety. It also discusses safe visitation strategies as a component of resident emotional well-being.
This resource focuses on emotional well-being of nursing home staff, including information about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health, how to enhance well-being in nursing home culture, and compassionate communication techniques.
This document highlights ways nursing home staff can help residents and families balance the need for social involvement with necessary infection prevention strategies.
This document provides ideas for communicating with family members of residents during COVID-19.
This resource provides guidance on compassionate care during COVID-19.
This document guides the interpretation of results when antigen tests are used in the following circumstances: testing of symptomatic residents and healthcare professionals, testing of asymptomatic residents and healthcare professionals in facilities as part of an COVID-19 outbreak response, and testing of asymptomatic healthcare professionals in facilities without a COVID-19 outbreak as required by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recommendations.
This guide—which builds on the IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work—includes actionable ideas that leaders can quickly test during the coronavirus response and which can build the longer term foundation to sustain joy in work for the healthcare workforce.
This toolkit is a compilation of considerations for long-term care facilities based on lessons learned during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic accompanied by resources to inform planning and response efforts.
This document provides a list of COVID-19 testing vendors for long term care. The list contains the vendor's name, company details, testing process description, turnaround time, test and billing information, service area and contact information.
This worksheet supplements the Primary Care Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Screening (PC-PTSD-5) instrument.
This toolkit provides a checklist on how to improve emotional wellness in 6 areas of life. The cards can be printed separately or together as a collective.
This flyer offers tips for identifying and managing stress.
The partnership survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and The Washington Post examines the experiences and attitudes of frontline healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic. This report highlights findings from the survey related to vaccine intentions among frontline healthcare workers and the toll of the coronavirus pandemic on healthcare workers.
This guide shares ideas and strategies for acknowledging grief in long-term care settings.
This Interim Final Rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes Long-Term Care (LTC) facility testing requirements for staff and residents. Specifically, facilities are required to test residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers, for COVID-19 based on parameters set forth by the Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary. This memorandum provides guidance for facilities to meet the new requirements.
This document provides answers and visual guides to Frequently Asked Questions concerning the National Healthcare Safety Network COVID-19 Point of Care (POC) Test Result Reporting Tool.
This flyer highlights strategies long-term care staff and leadership to consider when interacting with residents to support positive outcomes for both staff and residents.