74 percent of workers are concerned about their well-being at work: survey
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Oct 12, 2023
Seventy-four percent of US workers are “moderately” or “highly” concerned about their workplace well-being, according to the results of the 2023 EBRI/Greenwald Research Workplace Wellness Survey.
Apply for a job at your own organization ‘to evaluate processes, barriers and opportunities,’ committee...
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 23, 2022
The American Hospital Association’s American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate this week released the first section in a three-part compendium that will focus on best practices to manage...
NLRB, OSHA partner to protect employees who report workplace violations
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Nov 02, 2023
The National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Health and Safety Administration are teaming up to further protect whistleblowers.
‘Ladders and lattices’ provide career opportunities for CNAs
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Apr 10, 2024
Providers would be wise to develop “ladders and lattices” to help certified nursing assistants advance in their healthcare careers, JAMDA, the Journal of Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, reported.
Boosting CNA workforce is focus of state association campaign
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 22, 2024
The California Association of Health Facilities last week launched an awareness and recruitment campaign to draw more certified nursing assistants to senior living and long-term care.
New leadership training program’s first class begins
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
May 16, 2023
Several long-term care and healthcare employers are collaborating with the Health Career Lab of Louisville, KY, to create “a leadership training program focused on empowering tomorrow’s healthcare...
Making long-term care employers more competitive is goal of association, university partnership
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Sep 18, 2023
A new partnership aims to make skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities and personal care homes in Pennsylvania more competitive as employers by enabling them to offer tuition discounts...
OSHA’s move to make COVID standards permanent met with skepticism from long-term care industry groups
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jan 05, 2023
The final version of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s rule meant to protect healthcare workers from COVID-19 has reached the White House Office of Management and Budget for review...
Career pathway programs can mitigate workforce shortages: report
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Jul 21, 2023
Some states are looking at developing career pathway programs as a strategy to address or mitigate workforce shortages in long-term care, according to a recent report from the National Conference of State...
Should US follow Canada’s example in addressing workforce woes?
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Kathleen Steele Gaivin
Feb 07, 2023
Canada is turning to immigration in a big way to fill jobs left unfilled by its citizens. Could there be a lesson for the United States? Immigration accounts for almost 100% of Canada’s labor force growth,...