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	<title>News and Opinions « Direct Care Alliance &#187; turnover</title>
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	<description>What direct care worker advocates are thinking, saying and doing</description>
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		<title>DSPAM&#8217;s New President Plans to Build on Past Success</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/12/dspams-new-president-plans-to-build-on-past-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsay Short</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am honored to have been elected president of the Direct Support Professional Association of Minnesota as of next year.
Being a part of DSPAM over the last two years has been an eye-opening, life-changing experience. I’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing people on the DSPAM board of directors, and I&#8217;ve watched DSPAM turn into an amazing organization, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Making it So Hard for Direct Care Workers to Stay on the Job</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/stop-making-it-so-hard-for-direct-care-workers-to-stay-on-the-job/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/stop-making-it-so-hard-for-direct-care-workers-to-stay-on-the-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Mike Harrison. I am a displaced factory worker who has found refuge in the direct care workforce.
I do what is called &#8220;in-home care&#8221; for a single quadriplegic client in his residence. It took me over two years to get the seniority to schedule myself for 40 hours a week. That leaves me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense of Health Care Reform: What Does it Mean for Direct Care Workers?</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/making-sense-of-health-care-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/making-sense-of-health-care-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Ward</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Send us your questions: We figure you have plenty of thoughts and questions about this issue, so we published this update in this blog and our Direct Care News newsletter in late October, and we’ll keep updating it until a health care reform bill is passed or vetoed. If you have any questions about health care reform and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Find and Keep Good Caregivers? Stand Up for Their Rights</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/how-do-you-find-and-keep-good-caregivers-stand-up-for-their-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/how-do-you-find-and-keep-good-caregivers-stand-up-for-their-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Nakhnikian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Direct care consumers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[respect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time someone asks you how to find a good home care worker, you might try referring them to this article.
Written by care recipient Laura Hershey for the Disaboom Network, an online resource for people with disabilities, the article is a realistic and respectful collection of tips on how to attract and keep a caregiver. In addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar, Report Relay Tips on Finding and Keeping Direct Service Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/webinar-report-relay-tips-on-finding-and-keeping-direct-service-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/webinar-report-relay-tips-on-finding-and-keeping-direct-service-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Nakhnikian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to find out what a CMS-funded study learned about how to improve retention rates among direct service workers, you can read a report by the Rand Corporation. Or you can sign up for a free webinar next Monday.
Sarah Hunter from RAND and Laura Steighner from American Institutes for Research will present the results of the Direct [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why So Many of Us Don&#8217;t Have Health Care Insurance</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/why-so-many-of-us-dont-have-health-care-insurance/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/11/why-so-many-of-us-dont-have-health-care-insurance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Krutsinger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Direct care consumers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minimum wage and overtime for home care workers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work as a direct support professional with developmentally disabled adults in residential settings. One thing I have in common with just about all my coworkers is that we need to work more than 40 hours a week to make ends meet – and even so, too many of us can&#8217;t afford our employers&#8217; health care coverage.
With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poems by Direct Care Workers: Getting By</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/poems-by-direct-care-workers-getting-by/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/poems-by-direct-care-workers-getting-by/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Moreau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Ellie’s reading the community college brochure
and talking about becoming a CNA or a PT assistant,
complaining to Gina how long it takes,
Just to make fifteen bucks an hour
instead of ten oh nine.
Extra money for cigarettes and tattoos,
I tweak them. I can be an asshole, I know.
It’s more than that really. It’s having enough
to buy oil for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Motivates &#8211; and Demotivates &#8211; Direct Care Workers?</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/what-motivates-dcws/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/what-motivates-dcws/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Nakhnikian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Direct care consumers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an academic but accessible take on what motivates – or demotivates – direct care workers, check out this month’s issue of The Gerontologist. The main focus is a section titled Direct Care Worker Job Satisfaction and Retention, which includes four reports on the factors that make direct care workers like or dislike their jobs.
&#8220;Intrinsic Job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Hampshire Analyzes the Needs of—and the Need for &#8212; Home Care Workers</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/new-hampshire-analyzes-the-needs-of%e2%80%94and-the-need-for-home-care-workers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/10/new-hampshire-analyzes-the-needs-of%e2%80%94and-the-need-for-home-care-workers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Nakhnikian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.directcarealliance.org/?p=1860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As Terry Lynch pointed out in his most recent blog post, the popular – and federally mandated – trend of using Medicaid to pay for less nursing home care and more home care cannot continue unless states can attract and keep more home care workers. A pair of recent papers from New Hampshire looks at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career Advancement and Supervisor Training Improve CNA Retention</title>
		<link>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/09/career-advancement-and-supervisor-training-improve-cna-retention/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.directcarealliance.org/2009/09/career-advancement-and-supervisor-training-improve-cna-retention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Nakhnikian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It appears that the investment that North Carolina is making in quality improvement initiatives is having a positive and significant impact on nursing home performance and the stability of the nurse aide workforce,” says Workplace Interventions, Turnover, and Quality of Care Report.
The June 2009 report analyzes three workplace interventions aimed at improving turnover rates and [...]]]></description>
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