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The traditional nursing home model is task focused. As we go through transformation we need to step back from organizing around tasks and become relationship focused. We need to learn new competencies and skills that will help us grow and sustain relationships.
Below you will find a list of the essential competencies of the Household Model. Copy these pages and distribute to participants. Ask participants to break into pairs. Each pair should examine one competency and give examples of behaviors that exemplify the competency.
Person-centered, resident-directed: Resident desires are held above all else. Staff seek guidance and direction from elders choosing their needs and preferences over efficiency. Staff should speak to residents instead of for them.
Home-building: Makes the neighborhood or household a healthy and happy place, works together to get things done, facilitates the creation of homey spaces, sees the possibilities of creating a daily life that naturally facilitates pleasurable moments, laughter and fun with lots of opportunity for a wide variety of meaningful relationships.
Leadership: Staff model desirable behaviors that honor household values. Leaders help others to do the right thing and seek to see all viewpoints of every situation.
Critical thinking and doing: Staff ask question to learn more about given situations. They problem solve and use good judgment both in directing their actions and in helping others act.
Initiative: Staff self-start, initiating action and encouraging other to act when needed. They share observations and initiate conversation with elders as a means of daily household pleasure and divining resident preferences.
CompETEnCiEs
The Dawn of Transformation: A Matrix Guide to Change by LaVrene Norton and Steve Shields, ©2005 Action Pact, Inc.
The Dawn of Transformation: A Matrix Guide to Change
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