Waivers will be issued at statewide, countywide, and individual facility levels. Nursing homes struggling to get uncertified temporary nurse aides (TNAs) trained to federal training requirements by ...

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 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Being the full-time chaplain at Lakewood Retirement Community comes naturally for Julie Gaines Walton. Becoming a nurse aide, however, never crossed her mind. Many long-term ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Free job training is available from the University of Hawaii Community Colleges in their Hana Career Pathways program. Applications are being accepted now for programs that have ...

The formal extension of a waiver program that relaxes certification requirements for some nurse aides was widely embraced by providers a day after the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ...

MADISON - The Assembly came up short Wednesday of overriding a veto of legislation for nurse aides after three Democrats flipped their stance on the legislation. The failed attempt to override the ...

After completing an intensive five-week training program in November, Nadege Massillon found a good job at a nursing home in Norwood. The position she accepted promised steady hours, decent benefits, ...

One of the most critical health care jobs and lowest paid is the nursing assistant, which is also called a nurse aide or a home health aide. In western Massachusetts and elsewhere, there’s a chronic ...