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	<description>PHI works to improve long-term care -- by improving the jobs of home health aides, certified nurse aides, &#38; personal care attendants.</description>
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		<title>Nursing and Residential Care Workers Suffer Highest Occupational Injury Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers in nursing and residential care facilities experienced the highest injury rates of any occupational setting in 2010, according to data recently released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: National Nursing Assistants Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Network of Career Nursing Assistants (NNCNA) has announced that the 33rd Annual National Nursing Assistants Week will take place from June 10-17. The week kicks off with National Career Nursing Assistants Day on June 10. &#8220;Safe Lifting&#8221; Is Theme The focus of this year&#8217;s nursing assistant recognition week is &#8220;Safe Lifting&#8221; with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gerontologist Explores Nursing Assistant Job Satisfaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PHI</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The October 2009 issue of The Gerontologist features two studies that use data from the 2004 National Nursing Assistant Survey (NNAS). The first-ever national survey of certified nursing assistants in the United States, the NNAS is considered a pathbreaking evidence base for policy, practice, and research initiatives to improve nursing assistant recruitment and retention efforts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advancing Excellence Announces New Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 15:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign enters its second year, an overhaul of its original eight goals has been announced. Three of these goals relate directly to the workforce. AE announced that a revision of their eight official goals is &#8220;necessary to keep up with the continual drive to improve nursing home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Says CNAs Challenged by Injuries, Poor Wages &amp; Benefits</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/study-says-cnas-challenged-by-injuries-poor-wages-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 17:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article in The Gerontologist (April 2009) examines the results of a first-ever National Nursing Assistant Survey and reports on the prevalence of work-related injuries, use of public assistance, and lack of health insurance among certified nursing assistants. The lead author of the article, The National Nursing Assistant Survey: Improving the Evidence Base for Policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar to Describe Best Practices in Retention</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directors of nursing, human resource staff, and administrators of nursing homes can learn about how to reduce turnover at a free technical assistance webinar on September 25. Experts including long-term care consultants Barbara Frank and David Farrell, Marguerite McLaughlin of Quality Partners of Rhode Island, and more will discuss the variables affecting recruitment and retention [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VA DCW Association Celebrates 11th Birthday</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/va-dcw-association-celebrates-11th-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/va-dcw-association-celebrates-11th-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were no speakers and no breakout groups &#8212; just a fun time for all on a beautiful, sunny day at our June 14 celebration of the founding of the Virginia Association of Professional Nursing Assistants. The pictures are of our the board of directors &#8212; and our birthday cake. Seeing all those direct-care workers in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iowa Issues Detailed Blueprint for Establishing DCW Credentialing System</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/iowa-issues-detailed-blueprint-for-establishing-dcw-credentialing-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommendations for Establishing a Credentialing System for Iowa&#8217;s Direct Care Workforce, (pdf) a recent publication from the Iowa Direct Care Worker Task Force, is a useful tool for advocates in any state who want to create &#8220;an accessible, comprehensible, flexible, quality system of education and training for all direct care workers.&#8221; The report documents work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHI Calls for Changes in Federal DCW Job Classifications</title>
		<link>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-calls-for-changes-in-federal-dcw-job-classifications/</link>
		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/phi-calls-for-changes-in-federal-dcw-job-classifications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a recent solicitation for comments from the federal government, PHI recommended changes to the three main categories used to track direct-care workers at the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The government considers revisions to its Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) categories every ten years. PHI also asked the government to address the exclusion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Nursing Home Owner Arrested for Failing to Provider Worker&#8217;s Comp</title>
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		<comments>http://phinational.org/archives/new-york-nursing-home-owner-arrested-for-failing-to-provider-workers-comp/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Toleos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A nursing home owner in the Bronx was arrested for failing to provide worker&#8217;s compensation for her employees. According to the August 7 issue of Crain&#8217;s New York Business, Helen Sieger was the first person in the state to be charged under the law, which makes it a felony for employers to fail to have [...]]]></description>
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