Leadership, Staff Empowerment, and the Retention of Nursing Assistants: Findings From a Survey of U.S. Nursing Homes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We examined the relationship between nursing assistant (NA) retention and a measure capturing nursing home leadership and staff empowerment.

Design

Cross-sectional study using nationally representative survey data.

Setting and participants

Data from the Nursing Home Culture Change 2016-2017 Survey with nursing home administrator respondents (N = 1386) were merged with facility-level indicators.

Methods

The leadership and staff empowerment practice score is an index derived from responses to 23 survey items and categorized as low, medium, and high. Multinomial logistic regression weighted for sample design and to address culture-change selection bias identified factors associated with 4 categories of 1-year NA retention: 0% to 50%, 51% to 75%, 76% to

SUBMITTER: Berridge C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7483198 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature