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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After completing an intensive five-week training program in November, Nadege Massillon found a good job at a nursing home in Norwood. The position she accepted promised steady hours, decent benefits, ...

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 ...

Ten students from the Health Related Technology Program at West Side Career and Technology Center recently passed their Nurse Aide Test. They completed the 150-hour course at United Methodist Homes, ...

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 ...

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 ...