Get the skills and training you need with help from the Labor Management Partnership’s education trusts.
Encourage your team to be high performing and career-resilient with help from the Labor Management Partnership’s education trusts.
Take four national leaders and practioners of workforce development trends and strategies. Add 200 Kaiser Permanente managers and union representatives committed to keeping KP and its workforce strong and resilient. Get the results: Six strategies for building the workforce of the future.
A medical assistant who used to fear computers takes a digital fluency course that empowers her to provide better care for her patients—and her family.
This medical assistant used to fear computers. Now that she’s taken a digital fluency course, she is empowered to provide better care for her patients—and her family. Watch the video and then read more.
Key accomplishments in workforce planning and development, workplace safety, total health, joint marketing and growth and attendance (and a peek into the future).
Nurses spend their days taking care of others. See how nurses in Southern California and Hawaii are stepping up as health and safety champions to also take care of themselves and their teams.
Silbia Espinoza, RN, strives to climb any mountain. Literally.
“I’m not what you would call a ‘normal’ person,” Espinoza says with a laugh. “I work a 12-hour shift and go straight to the gym. I can’t work out for less than an hour and 10 minutes!”
Espinoza, a UNAC/UHHP member who works in Southern California at the Baldwin Park Medical Center Intensive Care Unit, has been her department’s health and safety champion for two years.
“My manager, Celso Silla, volunteered me to be the champ,” she says. “Now people are always asking me when we can go out on walks and hikes.”
For example, one Saturday morning early last year, she and 14 co-workers, outfitted with sunscreen, water, protein bars and hats, took a steep, six-mile hike to and from the Hollywood sign. “It was fun!” she says.
They also work wellness into their daily routine. “Even when we attended a nursing conference, we decided to power walk instead of taking Uber,” she says. “People said afterward they had never lost weight by being at a conference.”
Espinoza’s drive to workout comes in part from the demands of her job. “Working in the ICU is very stressful. I have all this energy after work,” she says. “After working out I go home calmer and can think clearly.”
One change Espinoza has seen in her two years as a champ is healthier snacks at meetings and in the break room. Fresh fruits and veggies have replaced cookies and doughnuts.
“I like that I can be a role model,” Espinoza says. “I like the results I see in myself, and I feel great that my co-workers tell me how much weight they’ve lost or how many steps they’ve completed. All any of us needs is someone to encourage and guide us.”
A hands-on checklist of 31 potential hazards garderners and groundskeepers may encounter on the job—with advice on how to spot hazards, propose solutions and take steps to eliminate risks.
A Kaiser Permanente employee shares her journey to better health — and how she is now helping her teammates do the same.
After her son is diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a Kaiser Permanente clinical assistant makes it her mission to ensure her family—and her team members at work—are living healthy.
A hands-on checklist of 22 potential hazards sterile processing staff may encounter on the job—with advice on how to spot hazards, propose solutions and take steps to eliminate risks.
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