The Teaching Nursing Home series prepares nursing home supervisory staff and nursing school faculty to develop academic-practice partnerships. This series also describes how to create successful student clinical rotations in nursing homes that allow students to care for older adults with complex and overlapping illnesses, provide exposure to and interaction with healthcare 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.

This series includes the following courses: 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Overview: This course summarizes the objectives of the Teaching Nursing Home program and describes the components that make up the program. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: The Basics: In this course, nursing homes and nursing schools will learn to evaluate attributes of nursing homes that can affect the educational experience of students, compare and contrast the quality of care in nursing homes using objective criteria, explain how nursing homes are regulated and reimbursed, and evaluate the potential for a nursing home to serve as a clinical training site for nursing students. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Nursing Practice in Nursing Homes: This course prepares nursing homes and schools of nursing to engage in academic-practice partnerships to enhance learning and resident outcomes. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Resident-Directed Care and Culture Change in Nursing Homes: This course describes the concepts of resident-directed care and culture change in nursing homes and explains how to evaluate a nursing home’s adoption of resident-directed care and culture change. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Structuring Student Placements in the Nursing Home: This course prepares nursing schools to design student placements in nursing homes and facilitate student exposure to resident-directed care and culture change. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Structuring Student Placements in the Nursing Home Case Study: Through this case study nursing home staff and nursing school faculty will learn how to incorporate student learning objectives into clinical placements at nursing homes and facilitate student involvement in improving resident-directed care. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Introducing Resident-Directed Care and Nursing Home Culture Change Case Study: This course explains the concepts of resident-directed care and culture change in nursing homes and describes how to evaluate a nursing home’s adoption of resident-directed care and culture change. 

The Teaching Nursing Homes Series: Resources to Help Nursing Homes Prepare to be Clinical Sites for Nursing Students: This course describes how nursing homes benefit from serving as a clinical placement site for student nurses and explains why nursing schools may select nursing homes involved in culture change.