Nurses Learn About Advancing Excellence in Challenging Times

“We definitely need nurses to be part of the care team. I look forward to seeing how we can together change the lives of patients,” Mount Sinai Performing Provider System Medical Director Edwidge Thomas told the over 500 nurses and other healthcare workers who...

LMP Consultants Teach Maimonides Staff Keys to Effective Teamwork

For many years, Labor Management Project (LMP) consultants have been providing coaching support and training to employees of Maimonides Hospital. Recently, labor and management staff from Maimonides’ Ambulatory Care Department gathered to learn how to work together...

Workplace Violence Collaborative Ends, but Its Work Lives On

Speaking at the Labor and Management Project (LMP)’s final workplace violence conference in July, Daine Williams, assistant director of 1199SEIU’s Nursing Home Division and co-chair of the New Directions and Innovations Committee (NDIC), praised the collaborative...

LMP to Share Results of Our Work at National Conferences

This summer and fall, you can catch LMP staff on the road sharing the results of our work at four national conferences. In August, Assistant Director, Nursing Homes Janice Dabney and consultant to the LMP Lois Schram will share their expertise on how to reduce...

LMP to Present on How to Make CNAs Safer at National Conference

The Labor Management Project will share its expertise on how to reduce violence in nursing homes on August 2 at this year’s Pioneer Network Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. LMP Assistant Director Janice Dabney and consultant Lois Schram will conduct a workshop on...

How to Give Your Residents—and Yourself—a Healing Night’s Sleep

In many nursing homes and assisted living communities, nighttime sleep disruption is a common occurrence. Whether because of conversations between staff, hall lights, alarms, staff waking residents to reposition them or change incontinence products, or other factors,...