by Lori Porter | Jun 18, 2021 | CNA Stress, CNA Week
You’re short-staffed to begin with and another CNA calls in sick. You already had 20 residents, and now you have 27. You want every single one of them to get the care they need and deserve, but there are only so many hours in a day…and on your shift. What do you do?...
by Celeste Wooten | Jun 2, 2021 | CNA Week
CNA’s help maintain care in some of the nation’s most difficult environments. During the COVID 19 crisis, CNA’s were deemed as having the most dangerous in America. We should celebrate these men and women who are professionals and whose commitment to amazing,...
by Sherry Perry | May 1, 2021 | Career CNA
Career CNAs is the foundation in which this profession is built from. A solid foundation will keep things standing through the most horrible of storms. So why are the older CNAs never talked about? Companies seem to forget about them because they have been around so...
by Sheena Bumpas | Apr 13, 2021 | CNA Stress
I remember one of the first things I learned as a CNA was to leave personal issues at the door. I understood, we need to greet each resident with a smile. Soon I realized just how hard that really was. I was young and I had never had to deal with stress—at home or on...
by Karren Ganschinietz | Feb 23, 2021 | grieving
Over the past several months there have been questions about ‘how do I grieve’ or ‘how do I properly grieve for my resident?’ The answer is that there is no proper way to grieve the loss of someone you have cared for. There’s no set time frame, schedule, or...
by Lori Porter | Feb 1, 2020 | Get Involved
For many years now I’ve been serving as a coach to the frontline of long term care. There are many ways for you to engage in NAHCA, especially if you’re one of those people that often sit in the break room or have been known to say nobody listens and...
by Dane Henning | Jan 15, 2020 | Stories
by Dane Henning, NAHCA Contributor AdvoCAT is a group of CNAs and caregivers across the country that advocate not only for the profession, but for their residents and themselves. It is really unlike any other advocacy groups where it mostly focuses on legislation....
by Lori Porter | Jan 7, 2020 | Stories
by Lori Porter, NAHCA Contributor If someone were to ask me to pick one word that best describes any success that I’ve had, it’s easy for me to come up with that one word. It’s perseverance. There have been a lot of potholes, a lot of roadblocks, a lot of...
