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Stand up, Speak Out, Get Arrested?
Articles like this leave me speechless. A man volunteered at a nursing home for years without any problem. One day he witnessed an abusive occurrence. He reported this. He started seeing more abuse and...
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Nursing Home Worker Injury Rates High
I’ve been doing this work for over 20 years now and had my unfair share of injuries while performing my duties. I have often heard bosses moan and groan about worker comp rates and cost loss problems....
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The Workers Who Do The Jobs Others Don’t?
A headline caught my attention this evening. This is about a hospital going to an all RN staffing model, eliminating CNAs. In a move that defies conventional wisdom, Hahnemann University Hospital is...
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Death Rates Higher In Nursing Homes During Good Economy
An interesting article came to my attention today. In it, a study has shown that when the ecomony is strong and jobs are plentiful, nursing home residents have much higher death rates than any other...
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Disaster Planning?
Yet another study has come out about nursing homes not being prepared for disasters- natural and otherwise. After Katrina, where many residents at one nursing home died due to poor planning, the...
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A Wonderful Time Of The Year?
This isn’t news to me, or to most aides I suspect. We see it. We experience it. We hear all about it. WHAT? The PANIC mode our DON and Administrators go into when it’s THAT time of the year. The...
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Off Topic: Many CNA Blogs are LINK FARMS
A little off topic post here. I’ve been checking the stats for this web site for years now- and it’s fairly consistent that we get around 100,000 visits a day. Holidays and weekends the numbers of...
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Competency Models?
I found this web site that lists the desired competencies for those who wish to work as nursing assistants. While the list is comprehensive, I have to say that for every aide I know who exhibits these...
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Keeping Unions Out: Part Two
Some thoughts and ideas about nursing homes and Unions and how to avoid them. To avoid unionization, management must act like a union when employee grievances ariseThe number of unionized workers in...
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What You Will Find Here
Welcome to NursingAssistants.net! Thanks for stopping by. We have many resources here for CNAs, CNA educators, Staff Development, and others who are interested in the work of the CNA. Educational...
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