It’s part of life. As we age, we are forced to deal with a greater number of serious emotional losses. Most elderly people must face a variety of different losses. Do your CNAs know how to help their elderly clients deal with those losses? At your next CNA...
There’s a book I’d like to recommend to nursing supervisors and educators everywhere. It has nothing to do with health care or nursing specifically, but has everything to do with helping us inspire those around us. The book, Start with Why, emphasizes the importance...
Nurses and nursing assistants are all part of the same team and have the same goal: provide quality care to clients in need. So why is it that nurses and CNAs don’t always see eye to eye? Here’s what a few CNAs across the U.S. had to say recently: Valnecia...
Here’s a true story that says a lot about the perception of quality in the United States: IBM decided to have some of their computer parts manufactured in Japan. In the contract, IBM stated that they would accept three defective parts out of ten thousand. When the...
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)...