A recent study published in Health Affairs, led by Betsy White, focused on how the primary shift worked by staff - day or night shift - affected testing rates and vaccinations for nursing center staff. White and her team found that night-shift staff had the lowest odds of primary vaccination. This was also true of COVID-19 testing.
The LeaRRn program, with partners Center on Health Services Training and Research and The American Occupational Therapy Foundation, announces the second annual Workshop in Implementation Science and Health Services - WISH. Rehabilitation researchers with an interest in implementation science and/or health services research are invited to submit an application to participate in this intensive grant writing workshop.
As part of the IMPACT Collaboratory, which funds and supports research to improve dementia care, IMPACT researchers and the Alzheimer’s Association convened a panel of 12 persons living with dementia (PLWD) and care partners, to learn their thoughts about dementia research and related ethical challenges, and published two reports.
On August 15th, the IMPACT Collaboratory will be sharing two new grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to conduct non-drug dementia studies.
Results from a project led by the University of Utah College of Nursing, in collaboration with the Center for Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation (Q&I) evaluating the use of a video-based intervention, Me & My Wishes, to elicit long-term care residents’ preferences and to improve care plans’ alignment with these preferences.
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, nursing center staff have been providing care to vulnerable older adults. Knowing how important staff vaccination coverage levels are to protect nursing center residents, Q&I researchers led several efforts to understand staff vaccine hesitancy and strategies to increase vaccine coverage.
The IMPACT Collaboratory launched an updated website detailing the training and grant funding opportunities available to investigators seeking to gain skills in pragmatic research and to conduct non-drug dementia studies.
Findings from various projects in our diverse COVID-19 portfolio illustrate how our work has informed nursing center practice and policy in near real-time.
Although strict adherence with infection control practices is needed to curb the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in nursing centers, most facilities only have one staff member with specialized infection control training, the infection preventionist. In early 2021, the Connecticut Department of Public Health asked a team of Q&I researchers to create and pilot test a program for nursing homes to extend infection preventionists’ expertise throughout their facilities.
