Before home-based care providers send professional caregivers into the home, there is often already a family member — ...

Training nursing home workers to specialize in care areas like this can be a significant boost for nursing home workforces, experts say, because it helps retain facilities’ strongest employees by ...

Under a bill advancing in the House, Iowa's nursing home staff would undergo new training. House Study Bill 691 would require the Department of Inspections, Appeals and Licensing to conduct training ...

As the need to attract new staff into the flagging long-term care workforce intensifies, one provider’s successful career program is expanding its scope to help in-state competitors. Created in 2006 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Loretto is doubling the size of its paid training program for entry-level nursing home workers and significantly boosting pay for those who successfully become certified nursing aides ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — There is a bill on the table in Albany designed to ease the nursing shortage here at home. Local lawmakers want to partner with Western New York hospitals, universities and ...

The letter, which was tabled in the P.E.I. legislature by Liberal MLA Gord McNeilly on Nov. 5, said the in-house training for ...

TULSA, Okla. — With a rise in COVID-19 infections comes more concern for the elderly, who are in the higher risk category. To manage that risk, Oklahoma’s nursing homes go through a 16-week bootcamp ...