This week, Corey Rotella, CNA, shares her thoughts about what keeps her on the job. We’d love to hear from nurse aides everywhere so please add your comments about working in health care! Anyone working as a nursing assistant has chosen a very challenging path. ...
National CNA Week will be here before we know it! This year, it spans from June 12th to June 19th. In the past, we’ve heard from nurse aides around the country that their organizations don’t acknowledge CNA Week. If this is true for your workplace, how about...
Is part of your job as a nursing supervisor or nurse educator to develop monthly inservices for your nursing assistants? If so, you know how time consuming that process can be. Perhaps you’ve considered purchasing “ready-made” topics from a company (like In the Know)...
If you are looking for more ideas to spice up your 2010 inservice schedule, consider presenting the following topics: 1. Review the Normal Aging Process During their short initial training time, nursing assistants learn a few basics about the human body. However, in...
Chances are, you have presented inservices to your CNAs on the typical topics: standard precautions, confidentiality, nutrition, pain management and dementia. Without question, these are all necessary inservices for nursing assistants. However, to develop a team of...