HELPING HANDS: Online classes, grants speed training of desperately needed CNAs

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BACKBONE: Shaun Cournoyer, administrator of nursing and long-term care facility The Friendly Home in Woonsocket, said certified nursing assistants are the “backbone” of the facility. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
BACKBONE: Shaun Cournoyer, administrator of nursing and long-term care facility The Friendly Home in Woonsocket, said certified nursing assistants are the “backbone” of the facility. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
Anyone who has spent even a little time in a nursing home or hospital has seen whose hands do the essential feeding, dressing, cleaning and comforting. Most often, those hands belong to a certified nursing assistant, or CNA. The number of CNAs working in Rhode Island nursing homes and hospitals has plummeted in recent years…


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