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About Oasis 2.0
Oasis 2.0 is a unique approach to achieving collaborative, interdisciplinary person-directed care. Staff who went through the original training dubbed it “Oasis” because it captured the sense of calm and safety they felt -- even in difficult situations. Oasis is now in use in over 300 nursing homes in several states, helping residents with dementia enjoy a higher quality of life. Later in 2016, Dr Wehry will assist the Texas Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in introducing Oasis to over 1200 homes. |
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Staff
Staff like Oasis 2.0 because it recognizes their caring and their skills. |
Administrators
Administrators like it because it helps increase resident and family satisfaction and helps reduce use of unnecessary antipsychotics. |
Residents and Families
Residents and families like it because they feel seen, heard, valued and respected. |
“It’s kinda visionary stuff, but mostly it's common sense…[Oasis] made me not want to give up.”
-- Oasis training participant
History
The training was designed in 2009 to help turn around three long-term care facilities experiencing staff burnout, high turnover, high levels of resident-to-resident and resident-to-staff incidents and recurrent findings of immediate jeopardy. The interdisciplinary approach of Oasis proved successful and became the foundation for three larger pilots in Massachusetts and Vermont.
Training
Oasis 2.0 uses a train-the-trainer model augmented by on-site champions, coaching, booster sessions and just-in-time learning opportunities arising from day-to-day experience. Teams from facilities are introduced to Oasis 2.0 in an initial, intensive 1-2 day training for trainers at which the Oasis 2.0 teams receive a manual with a DVD containing slides and supplemental materials.
The training was designed in 2009 to help turn around three long-term care facilities experiencing staff burnout, high turnover, high levels of resident-to-resident and resident-to-staff incidents and recurrent findings of immediate jeopardy. The interdisciplinary approach of Oasis proved successful and became the foundation for three larger pilots in Massachusetts and Vermont.
Training
Oasis 2.0 uses a train-the-trainer model augmented by on-site champions, coaching, booster sessions and just-in-time learning opportunities arising from day-to-day experience. Teams from facilities are introduced to Oasis 2.0 in an initial, intensive 1-2 day training for trainers at which the Oasis 2.0 teams receive a manual with a DVD containing slides and supplemental materials.
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