The course will cover a culture change nursing home and traditional nursing home. In a culture change nursing home, learners will be able to assist faculty to structure student clinical experiences. In a traditional nursing home, learners will be able to integrate principles of culture change and resident-directed care into the clinical experience. In both types of nursing homes, learners will be able to collaborate with nursing home staff to create learning experiences that promote student understanding of resident-directed care.

These modules are directed to nursing faculty in schools of nursing, other academic programs preparing health care professionals, and supervisory staff in nursing homes. It will provide criteria to maximize student clinical rotations in nursing homes to allow students to care for older adults with complex and overlapping illnesses over a sufficient period of time, with exposure to and interaction with health care teams, and with faculty supervision that fosters the student’s appreciation of both the complexity of the care and the opportunities to achieve improvements that promote quality of life. Included is a special focus on introducing resident directed care and culture change, and an emphasis on maximizing the mutuality between academic settings and nursing homes.