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Exploring Career Pathways: From Nurse Aide to Advanced Healthcare Roles

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Exploring Career Pathways: From Nurse Aide to Advanced Healthcare Roles The healthcare field offers a wealth of opportunities for those who are driven, compassionate, and eager to make a difference. Taking the Next Step: Becoming a Registered Nurse For many nurse aides, becoming a registered nurse is a natural next step.

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Employment Considerations for Long Term Care Facilities under the Biden-Harris Administration

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Since 2015, SNFs have been required to electronically submit direct care staffing information based on payroll and other auditable data to CMS’s Payroll Based Journal system. The system has gathered staffing information on registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and other types of medical personnel.

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States Set Minimum Staffing Levels for Nursing Homes. Residents Suffer When Rules Are Ignored or Waived.

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Even the most passionate nurses and aides are burning out in short-staffed homes because they are stretched too thin to provide the quality care they believe residents deserve. “It It was impossible,” said Shirley Lomba, a medication aide from Providence, Rhode Island. She left her job at a nursing home that paid $18.50