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 ...

Skilled nursing facilities in states where there aren’t any training delays should be actively working to transition all of their temporary nurse aides to certified status “as soon as possible,” say ...

A simple change to the way states administer their certified nurse aide exams could easily open the doors to hundreds of new job candidates, providers said as Massachusetts leaders took action. Gov.

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 ...