Training and Advancement Opportunities for Nursing Assistants Would Improve Quality of Care
Central to any good job is the opportunity to learn, grow, and develop one’s skill set. Unfortunately, in America’s nursing homes, too many jobs aren’t good jobs; they offer poverty-level wages, inadequate benefits, and little opportunity for advancement. Attracting and retaining quality workers to nursing homes requires improving entry-level positions, but also providing meaningful opportunities to graduate to advanced roles, with enhanced responsibility and higher wages. Unfortunately, in the vast majority of nursing homes, those opportunities simply aren’t there.