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--JOURNAL ARTICLES--

The Critical Link Between Workforce Organization and Excellence
Leslie A. Grant
Provider. 2007 May; pgs. 1-4.
http://www.providermagazine.com/pdf/MyInnerview607.pdf

Radical Change: Past and Future
Hollis Turnham
Quality Counts; Issue 1 - 2007, pgs. 1-2.
http://www.mpro.org/nursinghome/pdf/quality_counts/qc_1st2007.PDF

Level of Empowerment and Health Knowledge of Home Support Workers Providing Care for Frail Elderly
C. Shanthi Johnson, Miriam Noel
Home Health Care Services Quarterly. 2007; 26(3): 61-80.
http://www.haworthpress.com/store/ArticleAbstract.asp?ID=104211

E-learning for home care employees respects principles of adult learning
Deborah Scholl
Home Health Care Management & Practice. 2007 June; 19(4): 300-303.
http://hhc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/19/4/300

In a manner of speaking: communication between nurse aides and older adults in long-term care settings
Carpiac-Claver ML, Levy-Storms L.
Health Commun. 2007;22(1):59-67.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17617014&itool=pubmed_DocSum

Enhanced care assistant training to address the workforce crisis in home care: Changes related to job satisfaction and career commitment
Constance Coogle et al.
Care Management Journals: The Journal of Long Term Home Health Care. 2007; 8(2): 71-81.
http://www.directcareclearinghouse.org/l_art_det.jsp?res_id=254910

Job satisfaction and career commitment among nursing assistants providing Alzheimer's care
Coogle CL, Parham IA, Young KA.
Am J Alzheimers Dis Other Demen. 2007 Aug-Sep;22(4):251-60.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=17712156&itool=iconabstr&itool=pubmed_DocSum


--REPORTS-

2006 National Survey of Nursing Home Workforce Satisfaction
Leslie A. Grant, Mauro Hernandez, Michael Davern, V. Tellis-Nayak, Amy Hu, and Eric Lewerenz
MyInnerView (June 2007, .pdf format, 20p.)
http://myinnerview.com/downloadPDF.php?pdf=miv/reports/MIV_NHWS07_FA.pdf