CNAs
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‘The Reality Is, It’s Incredibly Hard’
Shelly Hughes’s typical day starts at 9 p.m. She’s used to not wanting to get out of bed and go to work, but now the feeling is much stronger. Her son, home from college because of social-distancing measures, tells her every day to quit her job. Lately her husband takes extra care to set out her scrubs and make sure that she has coffee. “He is just a little bit extra affectionate,” she told me. He reminds her to wash her hands and avoid people who cough. It’s “like he’s sending me off to war or something.”
In a sense, he is. Hughes is a nursing-home aide in Washington State, and her patients are among the most vulnerable to COVID-19. Hughes’s work has always been intimate, and hard:…
Resources
How Millions of Women Became the Most Essential Workers in America
One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential.
Nursing Assistant Kept Showing Up for Work—Until He Got Sick
Maurice Dotson knew care-home residents in Austin, Texas, relied on him; he died of Covid-19.
Using nursing assistants to fill coronavirus gaps brings risks if they’re not up to the job
Australia is clearly going to need innovative ways to ease pressure on the health workforce over the coming months. If we’re going to recruit student nurses and current visa holders, we need to make sure all have been trained and assessed to the same standard.
Everything You Want To Know About Being A CNA
You’ve decided you want to become a Certified Nursing Assistant. You’re excited and want more information about this career. Some questions you might have deserve answers, and here we will try to do that.
Home Health Care: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?
Do you know who is going to care for you when you are old and frail? By current standards, it’s likely to be a middle-aged immigrant woman, with maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a year. And that’s if you are lucky. If you live in rural America, you may already have a hard time finding somebody to look after you
The future of work is the low-wage health care job
The poor taking care of the poor are driving the new economy.
There Are Not Enough Personal Care Aides To Care For Frail Seniors. What Will We Do?
We pay more to workers who look after pets than those who care for our parents.
Who Will Care for America's Seniors?
Being a home-health aide is a lonely, difficult job, and the pay is miserable. But the country needs to find millions more people to do it.
‘The Reality Is, It’s Incredibly Hard’
Preexisting staffing shortages and dismal pay are colliding with a crisis that’s testing the limits of the nurses and health aides caring for the sick and elderly.
National Association of Health Care Assistants
The mission of the National Association of Health Care Assistants is to elevate the professional standing and performance of Caregivers through recognition, advocacy, education and empowerment; while building a strong alliance with health care providers to maximize success and quality care.
National Network of Career Nursing Assistants
Promoting recognition, education, research, advocacy and peer support development for nursing assistants in nursing homes and other long-term care settings.
NursingAssistants.net
This site has been online for ten years now in various shapes and forms. The goal of this web portal is to bring together the many online resources and links and information to one central place. The work of CNA’s is important and valuable. We believe the more informed CNA’s are, the better quality work they will produce.
CNA Classes
Are you looking to begin a career as a CNA? If so, you’ve come to the right place. Here at CNAClasses.org we understand your eagerness to jump into such a high demand and growing field. However, we also know how difficult it can be to find the right information to get started, which is exactly why we are here.
CNA Classes Online
Looking to get started as a certified nursing assistant online? Well, it’s a good thing you’ve stopped by CNA Classes Online. Here, we’ll explain more about how you can obtain CNA certification online and start your career as a nursing assistant ASAP to start earning money.
Get CNA Jobs
Join CNA professionals receiving free weekly job listings to their inbox every week.
Just for Caregivers
Our mission is to empower CNAs, PCAs, HHAs, and other non-medical caregivers to provide top-notch client care by offering mobile-friendly certification and continuing education
myCNAjobs.com
The world’s most comprehensive resource to find rewarding work and hire caregivers & cnas quickly.
Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
PHI works to transform eldercare and disability services. We foster dignity, respect, and independence―for all who receive care and all who provide it. The nation’s leading authority on the direct-care workforce, PHI promotes quality direct-care jobs as the foundation for quality care.
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment of nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants is expected to grow, faster than the average for all occupations. Because of the growing elderly population, many nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants will be needed in long-term care facilities, such as nursing homes.
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