Happy Nursing Assistants Day!
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Kathy Q.
It's time to say THANKS to all the nursing assistants who help to make our days and provide such terrific care to our patients!!! Happy Nursing Assistants Day as Nursing Assistants Week begins and runs June 11 ...
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An Assisted Living and Nursing Home Alternative?
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Lisa D.
Of all the senior clients and families I have worked with, I have never met a senior that said "Someday, I really want to live in a nursing home." Some seniors just need additional help with daily acitivities so an assisted living community will fit their needs just fine. Hopefully the senior and their fam ...
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Taka starts to take vital signs to assist nurses
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Pedro M.
Taka takes vital signs to assist nursesOur nurse auxillary, Taka,
has set up a table in the waiting area to take the vital signs of the
patients. We are hoping that this will free up the nurses for
the extra time they will be spending with the ARV patients. Taka
is usually dispensing medications but now, Ndiwo will be left alone
in the dispe ...
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Let's not make nursing homes and assisted living Home-Like - let's make them home!
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Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
... ince my in-laws was that they were not leaving home, but simply changing home. Somehow we don’t seem all that convincing when we describe our communities, assisted living or nursing home, as “home-like.” Let’s start calling them our residents’ home, and training staff to think of them in exactly that way. We’re then guests and employees in our res ...
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Nursing Shortage Has Solutions
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Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
... crisis level. There's simply no rational reason for such a dramatic restriction in the admission to nursing programs, especially today with elearning options. In the online nursing assistant program we launched July 1, we've had over 150 applicants with minimal publicity. Many of these individuals are anxious to take the first step in their nurs ...
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MS School Nurses to Get Obesity Training
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Partnership for Prevention
More than 400 Mississippi school nurses will become the first in the nation to be trained by a national association to fight increasing cases of childhood obesity in the state. The nurses will be trained by the National Association of School Nurses through the School Nurse Childhood Obesity Prevention Education today and Wednesday at the Marriott ...
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Nursing shortages in the US – creating jobs that have long term positive effects
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Sharon K. Brothers, MSW
... others in our society. Today, I found myself arguing on the side of less training – maybe for the first time ever. A proposal came to my attention to increase the hours of nursing assistant training before certification. On the surface, I can say, “Yeah; more work for me!” Inside I know that more hours of training isn’t what we need right now. ...
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