Research Needed on Microlearning as a Training Strategy for CNAs in Skilled Nursing Facilities

Training, implementing, and sustaining behavioral protocols among frontline workers of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) is challenging for a variety of reasons. Limited resources, competing demands, protocol complexity, lack of a champion, instability of leadership, and stakeholder resistance are some examples of barriers to successful training and implementation of new protocols.1 The need to identify strategies to overcome training barriers within SNFs became especially evident in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic when care staff had to rapidly learn new infection prevention protocols in the midst of overwhelming care needs, staff and PPE shortages, and changing governmental guidelines.