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		<title>Healthcare’s Dirty Little Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working in the healthcare environment is unlike any other professional situation you will ever encounter.   The medical field is stressful, fast paced, competitive, highly technical and constantly evolving.  And, because human lives are at stake, those of us in healthcare shoulder a heavy responsibility.  When all these factors combine, workers tend to feel powerless, stressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cat Shero, CNA, Is a HERO in Our Books!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We love this story about Catherine Shero, CNA.  It was published in the TriValley Dispatch newspaper.
Catherine “Cat” Shero started her career as a certified nursing  assistant after graduating from high school in Flint, Mich., in 1973.
“I  just kind of fell into it back then,” said Shero, who went to high  school with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to a Deserving CNA!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Paula Blunt, a certified nursing assistant at Delmar Gardens North, is the second-place winner of the &#8220;I Make a Difference Award,&#8221; a national award from Positive Promotions.
Blunt&#8217;s nomination was based on her 20 years of service, nine of them at Delmar Gardens North.
Blunt&#8217;s administrator and charge nurse describe her as a &#8220;mini teacher,&#8221; saying she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great NY Times Article about CNAs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the New York Times posted an article on its website entitled One Way to Judge a Nursing Home.  So, what&#8217;s that &#8220;one way&#8217;?  It involves talking to the nursing assistants at the nursing home and finding out how long they have been on staff.
The author of the article, Dale Russakoff, describes her experience of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Betty Perez:  Hero of Long Term Care!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ohio Health Care Association (OHCA) has selected Betty Perez, a nurse aide, as its June 2010 Hero of Long Term Care.  To honor Betty, the OHCA will feature her on their website throughout the month of June.  She will also be celebrated at the 2011 OHCA annual conference.
Betty works at Wapakoneta Manor in Wapakoneta, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Nursing Assistant Is a Hero</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I found a great essay written by Mark Laughlin for the online magazine, Smile Politely.  It&#8217;s obvious that Mark has a great appreciation for nursing assistants and understands their importance to our health care system.  Here&#8217;s some of what Mark had to say:

Nursing assistants come in all shapes and sizes.  They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only a CNA?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dawn Mazzola is a certified nursing assistant at a nursing/rehab facility.  She finds working with the elderly to be a very rewarding job, yet sometimes she feels her job goes overlooked.  One day after a long shift, she came home and wrote about being a CNA.
&#8220;Only&#8221; a CNA?
Who are you to refer to us,
As &#8220;Only&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justfornursingassistants.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Congratulations to CNAs Everywhere!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every June, nursing assistants are honored for one week during National CNA Week.  Today is the first day of CNA Week 2010.  So, congratulations to CNAs (and other direct care workers) everywhere!
Of course, at Just for Nursing Assistants, we prefer to honor CNAs every day!  It is our mission to spread the word about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justfornursingassistants.com/blog/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Got a Minute?  Please Watch This Video…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please take a couple of minutes out of your day and watch this video.  It may be an eye-opener for you!
The Importance of Direct Care Workers
PHI is a great organization that has worked hard to improve working conditions, pay and benefits for the direct care workforce.  If you would like to help them in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://justfornursingassistants.com/blog/?p=31</link>
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		<title>The Importance of Nursing Assistants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s impossible to fly an airplane without wings, right?  And, there is no way to ride a bike without wheels.  The business of providing healthcare is a &#8220;machine&#8221; just like an airplane or a bicycle.  The entire &#8220;machine&#8221; of healthcare would crash without the direct client care provided by hardworking, dedicated and compassionate nursing assistants [...]]]></description>
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