PREP Program

Let Skilled Care Pharmacy show you the best way to train – and retain – nurse aides

The nurse aide position is critical to every long-term care facility, but anyone experienced with the industry knows it’s a difficult position to fill, and harder still to retain experienced staff.

Skilled Care Pharmacy offers a unique program called PREP (Promoting Retention with Educational Programming) to better prepare nurse aides for their positions and to give them a greater sense of empowerment and satisfaction in their jobs. Skilled Care Pharmacy will show you how to match nurse aide trainees with a mentor from your facility, allowing trainees to learn on the job while also gaining a powerful personal support structure.

In the PREP program, mentors will learn important tools regarding how adults learn, workplace factors affecting turnover and how to establish an effective relationship with their trainees. We’ll show them the best ways to mentor aides on responsibility to licensed nurses, to teach the importance of quality on the job and to evaluate performance.

PREP gives facilities help with recruiting mentors, establishing program goals, developing training materials and using communications feedback tools to improve employee relations throughout the organization.

In addition to improved retention, competency and job satisfaction among new nurse aides, benefits of the program include better overall staff morale, reduced training costs with better oversight and a lower time requirement from the nurse manager for nurse aide orientation. PREP also creates positive resident outcomes, a reduced risk of staffing citations; promotion opportunities for your existing nurse aide staff and reduced reliance on contract labor.

The Skilled Care Pharmacy training staff provides everything you need for a new and better way to staff this important position and retain skilled and experienced employees. Click here to learn more.