When is cna week

Put up signs and decorations celebrating nursing assistants in appropriate parts of your facility. If your facility or organization is active on Facebook, Twitter, LInkedIn or another social format, take the opportunity to highlight CNA Week and encourage your network to do the same. Hold a CNA Week event at your facility or within your community centered on the important of nursing assistants.

Offering buttons or lapel pins to wear can help motivate your entire staff to join in the spirit of CNA Week. Even better, free lunches and special events will go even farther to bring folks together with the goal of helping your nursing assistants feel appreciated. Especially during the past year of Covid-focused care , many CNAs have been working extra shifts to meet the escalated need of intense patient care. Some facilities have helped relieve the burden on these workers by hiring extra aides to help out with some basic tasks.

One industrious health and rehabilitation center in Wisconsin met this need by literally bringing in members of the community to serve as aides to nurses and CNAs by providing non-nursing tasks like stocking supplies and delivering laundry, as reported by the Wisconsin Health Care Association WHCA. Learn more about our CNA staffing and recruitment services here , or submit a staffing request now. Submit a Staffing Request. And as we wrap up the most poignant and difficult Nurses Week….

She is an awesome CNA. Heather is one of the most passionate care givers I have had the privilege to work with. She goes above and beyond with her residents showing them love and compassion even more during this Covid 19 visitor restrictions. Heather and her hall partner, Melissa are known as Batman and Robin at the facility and residents hate when they are off. Helen cares about her residents and is a true professional. Helen also considered a senior, and has been in the industry for over 30 years and does not retire because she cares about the well-being of the residents in her care.

Jackie goes above and beyond for her residents. She is caring, compassionate and always willing to help whenever possible. She has great work ethics and plays positive role within the nursing team. Because she always goes above and beyond to make sure our residents get quality care, and feel like they are special.

She spends her own money and time to ensure the resident have what they need or want. In addition she is always willing and available to help staff and resident family members at any given time. A truly awesome CNA that loves what she does and it shows in her work performance.

Jessica is very kind and patient ;she works with a challenging population of dementia patients. When she prepares the meals she takes extra attention to season it correctly and make it tasty and visually appealing for the patients. I am writing this letter to recommend Katrina for the position of certified nursing assistant her at Mimbres memorial nursing home in Deming New Mexico.

Katrina worked on a nursing team for two years, and supervisors, co-workers, and patients all have been satisfied with her performance and caring attitude throughout that time. Reliable, responsible, efficient, and teamwork-oriented. Katrina S worked with many complex patients who completed duties in a compassionate manner. She assists her co-workers and nurses with duties.

She provides input into better ways to deliver care to our patients. She treats everyone with respect and dignity. The family have commended her in her job performance. Katrina had the drive and passion to be there every day and go above and beyond especially in this time of uncertainty in All staff at the facility always pleased to work with her as well. More than competent, Katrina was trustworthy and effective as a nursing assistant. She always has a smile on her face.

She stays busy and loves what she is doing. She works full time and goes to school full time. She goes above and beyond for her patients. She is sassy but classy! Most of these brave nursing assistants had a reason of their own to help those in need.

Many lost their family members to the virus, driving them to work on the front lines of the pandemic. Due to the toll that the COVID pandemic took on them, many nursing professionals are leaving the caregiving profession. Low staffing levels, demanding working environments, stagnant pay, and lack of career advancement all contribute to burnout among nursing professionals.

We celebrate National Nursing Assistants Week to remind our nursing assistants that their work is crucial to us and crucial to our family members who need quality care. The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of , signed by President Ronald Regan, aimed to increase the standard of care in nursing homes. This called for an increase in staffing levels and an increase in demand for CNAs that would ensure a high quality of care for each patient. By having more personnel to provide practical knowledge of caregiving along with a heart of compassion, post-acute and senior care facilities could deliver quality care to each of their residents.

Learn more about our Healthcare Heroes Initiative here.