Careers

Lattices and ladders are two of the key tools for attracting and keeping employees to ease the burdens of staffing shortages in the long-term care sector.

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred an interest in nursing careers, but many prospective nurses feel academically unprepared to pursue education toward that goal, a new survey finds.

We reviewed the latest on how to develop CEO skills and reflected on our own effective habits to create this guide for cultivating the abilities needed in our industry.

A recent Ziegler study found that 70% of long-term care organizations likely would have CEOs retiring in the next five years. Recognizing the tectonic shifts in aging in the coming years, one such organization,...

When I speak to long-term care groups, whether to those in leadership positions or to direct care staff, it’s clear that virtually all the audience members have been drawn to the industry because of...

I don’t think I’d ever heard of Menlo College in California before Wednesday, but if I had a college choice to make again, I might seriously consider going there. If only to learn more from...

After stealthily observing long-term care professionals in the wild for the past 15 years or so, I’ve come to see you as a perplexing and elusive study in contrasts. Perhaps you haven’t noticed...

As Nurses Day approaches, I’ve begun to wonder: How do you describe in one blog the “awesomeness” of a long-term care nurse? And then it hit me … a single word. Perhaps no single...

Two questions give senior living leaders countless hours of lost sleep. The first seems fairly objective: What does it take to be successful in this field? The second is about as personal as it gets: Do...

I love being a nurse and I can’t think of being anything else. Do you remember a time when there was a turning point, that is, there was something that actually framed or shaped WHO you would become...