Meeting Today’s Caregivers—Exactly Where They Are
In the ever-changing world of home health care, education needs to keep pace with reality—and reality rarely sits at a desk. Frontline caregivers are constantly adapting, often balancing demanding schedules and shifting best practices, all while striving to provide top-quality care. Traditional training methods, while well-intentioned, frequently fall short of meeting caregivers’ real-world needs. Enter microlearning for home health care: concise, community-driven lessons that deliver essential information right where it is needed—often, quite literally, between appointments.
Rethinking Training for a Mobile Workforce
Shirley Ryan AbilityLab in Chicago recognized these challenges firsthand. When asked how to make training relevant for today’s direct care workforce, they turned to Learnie, a flexible platform built for learning on the go.
As Dr. Bridgette Schram, Research Manager at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, explains:
“Learnie helped us recreate our training to better suit the needs of the direct workforce in Home and Community-Based Services. Our research team received feedback from our advisory council, consisting of professionals and consumers in home health services, that a traditional training would not add anything new to the field. They challenged us to focus on the needs of the direct workforce, a diverse population currently undergoing a shortage crisis. Finding Learnie transformed our training, allowing us to meet the workforce for training in their car or in between clients, where they spend their workday, instead of in an office or behind a desk.
Learnie has been so great to work with, helping us figure out the best way for the platform to fit the needs of the Direct Support Professionals we are training, as well as our needs as a grant-funded research program.
Our research team plans to share our evaluation process, in hopes of helping other professionals translate their training programs from traditional formats to a microlesson format that better serves the diverse direct workforce in home health.”
This practical flexibility empowers caregivers to learn when and where it fits their unique routines. It means essential updates, quick refreshers, and new best practices are always within reach—no need to pause vital patient care for hours-long seminars or tedious modules. In essence, learning “in the flow of work.”
Reinventing Confidence and Competence
This shift isn’t just about convenience—it’s about improving quality of care and morale among staff. At TidalHealth, a major provider in Maryland and Delaware, the adoption of Learnie’s microlearning approach has transformed the way their teams prepare for the job.
Stacy White, Education/Training Specialist at TidalHealth, says:
“Learnie has revolutionized the way we approach staff training. Its microlearning modules are not only convenient but also highly effective in reinforcing critical care practices. Our caregivers feel more confident and competent, which directly translates to better patient care.”
Confidence, as it turns out, is contagious: When caregivers spend less time buried in paperwork and more time with helpful, relevant training, patients feel the difference. And so do educators.
Jess Lewis, a Clinical Educator at TidalHealth, shares:
“Learnie frees up more time from the training staff in two ways – one – creating Learnies (microlessons) is easy and fast – so there is less time spent on the content creation.
Second – the students can easily find the answers by accessing our private community and using the AI assistant to get answers to questions that previously we had to get involved in supporting.”
Beyond Health Care: Empowering New Adventures
The transformative potential of microlearning doesn’t stop at health care’s doorstep. Organizations like All-Terrain Georgia are using Learnie to empower entirely different kinds of journeys. For individuals with mobility challenges, safe access to Georgia’s state and federal parks relies on innovative training and community engagement.
Aimee Copeland, Founder of All-Terrain Georgia, shares:
“Education is key to our All-Terrain Georgia program, which requires that users practice safe and sustainable riding behaviors in our state parks. Learnie’s technology is a perfect fit for providing our training materials to participants while also building a learning community of bidirectional information sharing that helps us improve our programs.”
With Learnie, the knowledge needed to unlock outdoor adventure is just a click away—delivered at the moment of need, and always evolving based on community insights.
A New Standard: Flexible, Human, and Effective
Whether serving busy caregivers in home health, clinicians at renowned research institutions, or outdoor adventurers discovering new frontiers, Learnie’s Community Microlearning unlocks a new era of training: practical, peer-driven, and immediately applicable. By meeting people in their everyday moments—no classrooms required—it ensures that learning never interrupts the heart of their work, their care, or, in some cases, their next big adventure.
As organizations like Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, TidalHealth, and All-Terrain Georgia have discovered, the path forward in education is one that puts people, not processes, first. This approach doesn’t just respond to today’s challenges—it prepares everyone for tomorrow’s challenges…helping them to deliver their best, every shift and every day.
Care happens everywhere—your training should, too. It’s time to put learning in motion. Discover the impact of Learnie’s Community Microlearning for your team today!