CNA Week begins on Thursday, June 12th. Are you ready to give some extra acknowledgement and appreciation to your hardworking nurse aides? If you need some ideas, please see this blog post on our sister site, Embracing Civility. You can also send your CNAs to this...
Last week, the results of a Penn State study on occupational injuries were revealed. It should come as no surprise that nursing assistants and home health aides were high on the “injured list”. However, the researchers found that on-the-job injuries...
It’s CNA Week and that’s a great time to think about how you can help your nursing assistants continue to learn on the job. Here at In the Know, we’re all about lifelong learning. And we know that the best learning experiences are often a bit...
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)...
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...