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HEALTH TRAINING CENTER
RICHARDSON & DALLAS, TEXAS
National Nursing Assistants Week
Nursing Assistants Week is June
15th to 22nd and focuses on ways nursing assistants make a
difference in the lives of the people in their care. It showcases
innovative approaches nursing assistants create to foster comfort,
alleviate stress, encourage friendships, and provide for the
wellbeing for our elder or disabled citizens.
Each day of National Nursing Assistants Week addresses a different
aspect of the “Caring is My Career” theme and provides ideas,
discussion guides and other resources that can be used for Nursing
Assistants Week and throughout the year for skill development and
decision making in the clinical setting, and for professional
advancement.
National Career Nursing Assistants
Day
National Career Nursing Assistants Day is June 15th, 2006. The first
day of Nursing Assistants Week is Career Nursing Assistants Day
which is set aside each year to recognize longevity of service,
special contributions to care practices and accomplishments of the
nursing assistants who have made caring their life career including
members of the National Twenty Year Club.
About Career Nursing Assistants
Nursing assistants are key players in the lives of the people in
their care. Each day, more than 2,500,000 caregivers provide
hands-on care to our nation’s elderly, or chronically health
challenged citizens in nursing homes and other long term care
settings. These important workers have various titles including:
Nursing Assistant, Nurse Aide, Care Assistant, Caregiver, In-Home
Care Aide, Resident Assistant, Hospice Assistant, Geriatric Aide,
Restorative Aide, Health Care Assistant, and others.
Because they "stay" in caregiving positions, Career Nursing
Assistants provide predictability and stability to care, which in
turn enhances the feeling of security for our aging, frail, or
chronically challenged citizens. They bring wisdom, patience, humor,
and a general attitude of caring to the daily lives of these people.
The Career Nursing Assistant also provides a role model for new
nursing assistants and many are recognized in their own families as
the “health care expert.”
The annual observance of Career Nursing Assistants’ Day and Nursing
Assistants’ Week was founded by Career Nurse Assistants Programs in
1977. Since this time, the group has expanded and has members in
every state and other countries as well. This popular nursing
assistant recognition program has grown to include thousands of
facilities and organizations joining together each year to recognize
and honor nursing assistants in long-term care services. A primary
purpose of the group is to involve people in positive change and
each year, members of the CNAP and NNCNA come together by phone,
email, mail and in groups to develop plans for the annual theme,
slogan and special projects that you have come to know as National
Nursing Assistants Week.
Career Nurse Assistants’ Programs, Inc. is a
non-profit, educational organization promoting recognition,
education, research, advocacy and peer support development for
nursing assistants in nursing homes and other long term care
settings. The membership of CNAP is the National Network of Career
Nursing Assistants.