1. And home health aide qualifications would be enhanced to include nurse aide training or competency evaluations. 2. Called the National Doctors Alliance, the group is affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, which represents nurses, nurses aides and medical technicians. 3. Experts retained by the Clinton administration recommended new rules that would require thousands of homes to hire more nurses and nurse aides. 4. In order to do that, she has brought together several forums this year to exchange ideas among those who hire nurse aides and those who train them. 5. Inspectors found a severe shortage of staff, including no registered nurse, no administrator on duty and untrained nurse aides, inspection records show. 6. Medicare and managed care plans are shifting patients from hospitals toward nursing homes and home health care, areas that use more nurse aides. 7. Nurses aides bustled here and there. 8. Other jobs start looking good to a nurse aide on a short-handed staff, Meador said. 9. Pending legislation and regulations would require still greater ratios of nurse aides to patients. 10. There are women who drive trucks, who work in construction, or as nurses aides, or nannies, or maids. |
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