Summary: Supporting Nursing Home Staff
supporting nursing home staff. This could range from ensuring they have adequate nurses to cover the number of residents, to encouraging new nursing graduates to join nursing homes to help ease the workload so that nurses have time to interact with residents, or other options. The benefit to such a program is that residents will be more likely to get the socialization they need and be less likely to be lonely, plus they would be developing relationships with the nurses who care for them and not just random volunteers who there may not be a guarantee they’ll see again. The cost however to this program is the cost of paying these nurses to work at the nursing homes since the state may have to help nursing homes pay their staff since a staff