School of Health and Life Sciences, Conestoga College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Kitchener, ON, Canada.
Schlegel-University of Waterloo Research Institute for Aging, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2022 Jan-Mar;43(1):75-83. doi: 10.1080/02701960.2019.1645015. Epub 2019 Jul 18.
Long-term care (LTC) or nursing homes often experience difficulty recruiting passionate, competent and confident graduates to add to their teams. Few graduates are well-prepared for working in LTC environments and they do not often stay long. In an effort to strengthen the LTC workforce, we established a collaboration with a LTC and retirement living organization and a community college to develop a Living Classroom. In this novel approach, college students attend an accredited LTC home for all learning. The purpose of this paper is to describe the Living Classroom program, with unregulated care provider education as the specific application, so that others can also explore the possibility of developing a Living Classroom with their partners. This paper also describes the importance of changing the way we currently understand workforce education and graduation challenges and see these as opportunities to take action and share innovation and development. Investing in applied and meaningful education with immediate knowledge transfer to the future work setting will help to enhance the future workforce required for seniors care.
长期护理（LTC）或疗养院通常难以招募充满激情、有能力和自信的毕业生加入他们的团队。很少有毕业生为在 LTC 环境中工作做好充分准备，而且他们往往不会长期留任。为了加强长期护理人员队伍，我们与一家长期护理和退休生活组织以及一所社区学院合作，建立了一个“生活课堂”。在这种新颖的方法中，大学生在经认可的长期护理家中接受所有学习。本文的目的是描述“生活课堂”项目，以非监管护理提供者教育作为具体应用，以便其他人也可以与他们的合作伙伴一起探索开发“生活课堂”的可能性。本文还描述了改变我们目前理解劳动力教育和毕业挑战的方式的重要性，并将这些挑战视为采取行动和分享创新和发展的机会。投资于具有即时知识转移到未来工作环境的应用和有意义的教育将有助于加强老年人护理所需的未来劳动力。
