CMS urged to reissue blanket waiver for temporary nurse aides. A significant number of temporary nurse aides (TNAs) may lose their jobs Friday if the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) ...

First comes the yelling. Then come smiles and hugs. For 13 years, Morris Commesor has been a certified nursing assistant (CNA) at assisted-living facility the Glenn in Minnetonka, and the job can be ...

The blanket waiver expired on October 6 while there was still a backlog for CNA training and testing in numerous states, creating a barrier for temporary nurse aides to become certified. Temporary ...

US nursing homes will face more than 660,000 nursing aide job openings through 2034, almost double what will be needed across four other main job roles, according to a new report on the direct care ...

Skilled nursing facilities in states where there aren’t any training delays should be actively working to transition all of their temporary nurse aides to certified status “as soon as possible,” say ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

A third of healthcare workers reported symptoms of PTSD related to the pandemic, but nurse aides and other lower-paid healthcare workers said they have been unable to get help for their conditions, ...

Nursing aides feel abandoned as they grapple with mental and physical troubles that stem from their work during the COVID outbreak. One evening in May, nursing assistant Debra Ragoonanan’s vision ...