WEST CHESTER — Chester County’s Pocopson Home was recently designated as a regional test site for nurse aides by Credentia, and organization that works with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to ...

Jeff Tompkins is a writer and teacher of English as a Second Language living in New York City. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1967 and was educated at Brown University and University College ...

One of the most critical health care jobs and lowest paid is the nursing assistant, which is also called a nurse aide or a home health aide. In western Massachusetts and elsewhere, there’s a chronic ...

A new nationwide learning institute for nurse aides aims to be the turnkey pipeline for both newcomers to the long-term care sector and mid-career professionals. The CareForce Academy was unveiled ...

Hundreds of aspiring nurse aides can start taking their certification exams in Spanish and Chinese next year, the start of a multilingual policy that advocates and lawmakers say will tackle a major ...

Nine students from the West Side Career and Technology Center Health-Related Technologies Program recently completed their 60-hour clinical experience at Wesley Village. All students passed their ...

Cleveland State Community College recently hosted a graduation celebration for the Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) class. Ten students completed the 100-hour class, passed the State Licensure Exam for ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Experts estimate Hawaii needs about 3,000 more nurses to meet its current healthcare demands -- and not enough are entering the workforce. A new scholarship program that ...

The exam required to become a certified nurse aide in Pennsylvania is so difficult to schedule that some prospective CNAs are giving up on employment in health care at a time when demand is greater ...

Thousands of jobs at Pennsylvania health care and elder care facilities will be at risk if a state-contracted company is unable to give those workers the certified nurse aide exam before a looming ...