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WHO WE ARE Career Nurse Assistants’ Programs, Inc is also known as the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants, a non-profit, tax exempt, educational organization promoting recognition, education, research, advocacy and peer support development for nursing assistants in nursing homes and other long term care settings. (EIN # 34-1782518). PROGRAMS National programs include: National Nursing Assistants’ Week celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2007, the National Twenty Year Club and Most Service Years Awards for Nursing Assistants, the Nursing Assistants as Authors Program, and Male NA Task Force on Adequacy of Staffing. Members also develop Position Statements and testimonies for legislative and public policy use. Ohio based programs provide a ready field testing arena for programs to be disseminated across the country and include: NA Training, Train the Trainer, Trainers Connections workshops; the Ohio 20 year Club; and the NA Authors Group Other collaborative projects include: The Annual National Forums on Nursing Assisting and The National Leadership Training Programs are held in conjunction with The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform’s Annual Meeting in the fall in Washington DC (1994-2001). The annual observance of Career Nursing Assistants’ Day and Nursing Assistants’ Week began in Ohio in 1977 as the Ten Year Club, and expanded nationwide by request in 1985. Since that time, this popular nursing assistant recognition program has grown to include thousands of facilities and organizations joining together each year to recognize and honor nursing assistants in long-term care services. The title, Career Nursing Assistant © was developed by the Nursing Assistants’ Representatives’ Committee of NE Ohio in 1977. Today’s nursing assistant is proud to be designated as a Career Nursing Assistant, and the terminology is now in common usage to identify the experienced nursing assistant. AWARDS The Career Nurse Assistants’ Programs is the Recipient of the American Society on Aging and Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College National Best Practice Award for Human Resources in Aging 1998, and Recipient of the American College of Health Care Administrators Public Service Award 1997. The Program also is endorsed by The American Medical Director’s Association, National Association of Directors of Nursing, The National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, and others. CNAP is listed as one of "Twenty Who Made a Difference in Long Term Care," Contemporary Long Term Care, June 1998. Projects and Programs are listed each year in the following calendars and publications: Chases Annual Events, Contemporary Books - since 1985. The Advocate, the National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform. Contemporary Long-Term Care Journal. Events Calendar, American Health Care Association. Nursing Assistants’ Monthly, Frontline Publishing. Recognition Calendar, The American Hospital Association. Health Observances and Recognition Days Calendar, The American Society for Health Care Marketing and Public Relations and many others.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES Genevieve Gipson NA RN MEd RNC - Director Mary Harrison BA Colleen C. Hughes NA RN PHD Laura McElroy NA M. Jeanne Flossie NA BA, LNHA
ADVISORS William Painter BA, ADC, Katherine Kasper MA, Ravenna Public Schools Sam McCoy LSW, Director, ElderRights, Area Agency On Aging Harvey Sterns PHD, Dir, Institute for Life Span Development and Gerontology, The University of Akron Sarah Berger RN MPH, Co Director, National Citizen’s Coalition for Nursing Home Reform Martha Mohler RN MPH Policy Analyst, National Comm to Preserve Social Security and Medicare. Remembering Mary Harper PHD FAAN, Former Dir LTC for NIMH, with gratitude for her many years of support and encouragement Clarissa Allega, JD, Law Offices of Raymond M. Powell
“Project Respect” ©. 2007
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