Category: Nurse Aides
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The Nurse Aide is Central to Holistic Health
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Staffing Shortages, Medication Aides, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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Nurse Aides: Ground Zero for Increasing Quality of Care and Reducing Healthcare Costs
Traditionally, state-tested nurse aides will perform 10% of what they are trained to do in the field. Again, we have an identity issue afoot. Like everything else in humanity, people will act according to how they perceive themselves. Nurse aides should see themselves as the healthcare foundation, particularly in long-term care. This isn’t a…
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The Nurse Aide State of Being
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Should Aides Split a Unit or Work Together?
Nurse aides in nursing facilities will typically work on long halls with 20-30 residents or in units with two smaller halls. This article is about skilled nursing units, behavioral units, or Dementia units. In most cases, assisted living units would not beg the question as to whether or not two aides should work together on…