Question: Where Have All the CNAs Gone?

CNAs. These positions are vital to our staffing models, partnering with registered nurses to take on certain ratios or acuity of patients. Nurses rely on CNAs to support their work efforts and to support quality patient care and customer service to patient and their families.

Where did they go?

Healthcare personnel make up one of the largest groups of skilled workers. During this time of Covid-19, CNAs, who innately are caretakers, may be taking care of their families. Or, they may be cautious in potentially exposing their significant others to Covid. And another consideration may be unemployment payments available to them could potentially be more than what they were making in a care facility, working intense and laborious hours. Now, with schools resuming across the country, many CNAs may need to be home supporting their children during this time.

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What will the impact be on nursing?

Healthcare facilities across the US are scrambling to recruit these critical CNA personnel to their facilities. This is adding to the heavy burden placed on Registered Nurses in a Covid-19 world. Now, they have to manage higher patient loads, higher acuity and longer days without support staff. This inevitably will contribute to the already high burnout rate of the Registered Nurse...

Source: The Staffing Stream