Congressmen have reintroduced legislation that would allow skilled nursing facilities to continue operating in-house CNA ...

An important part of training as a nurse is participating in hands-on clinical care, but now shelter-in-place regulations and school closures are preventing nursing students from gaining that hands-on ...

One thing the pandemic has demonstrated is that we need more health care workers, and so there’s a new organization designed to train nursing assistants. It’s called Next Step. It was started by Chris ...

Students participating in an initiative revisiting the concept of the Teaching Nursing Home improved gerontological nursing skills and confidence, according to a follow-up study and related resources ...

Last April, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced a new final rule requiring nursing homes that receive federal payments to meet certain minimum staffing requirements. While the CMS ...

Taking care of her dad after his two hip replacements awakened Jasmine Barnachea’s desire to be a nurse, but she needed a way to jumpstart her health care education. So when Barnachea, a nutritional ...

CNAs provide the bulk of direct patient care within nursing homes, such as washing residents’ hair, changing their soiled clothes or soothing their anxieties. But many nursing homes are finding it ...

BEAUFORT — Responding to a widespread shortage of nurses, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and the University of South Carolina Beaufort have partnered to created a new high-tech training facility that will ...

The state of Iowa has agreed to temporarily waive training requirements for nurse aides who deliver much of the hands-on care in nursing homes. The state of Iowa has agreed to temporarily waive ...