McKnight's June 3, 2024
Strengthen your healthcare team’s future by implementing in-house CNA training programs, ensuring compliance with new CMS staffing mandates. Discover how this strategic move can enhance your hiring pipeline and elevate patient care standards.
Staffing mandates are here, now what? The complexities and challenges of maintaining nursing staff levels from nurse aides to registered nurses (RNs) have long been evident in the post-acute care space. Turnover, burnout, and higher acuities contribute to many long-term care facilities’ hardships regarding staffing.
These challenges existed long before the recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandate established minimum staffing requirements for nurse aides and RNs in nursing homes. So now, looking toward the future, nursing facilities must think outside the box when...