EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS 

�PR Kit and Planning Guide for Nursing Assistants� Week 2006�

Provides plans for conducting a variety of projects, award events and activities for each day of Nursing Assistants� Week Celebration. Also included are worksheets, a Proclamation suitable for signing by your Mayor, City Council President or Governor, sample memos to the Mayor, to families and to the news media.

"Tips by Nursing Assistants for Nursing Assistants Booklets"

Savvy Nursing Assistants as Authors Publications

• Tips 1 - "Wisdom and Humor of the Career Nursing Assistant" - Experienced NAs share favorite tips for care giving, organizing work, communications and getting along on the job.
• Tips 2"Working with the New Nursing Assistant" - Experienced NAs share favorite tips for coaching, mentoring and orienting the new NA as she/he adapts classroom learning to individual resident care situations.
• Tips 3 - "Daily Dialogue-What do you say?" - Experienced NAs tell about special words they used in a variety of situations.
• Tips 4 - "TEAMWORKS�- Practical advice about how cooperation among coworkers makes a better work environment. 
• �Best of Tips� � Includes the best ideas from Tips 1, 2, 3, 4. � also available through Hartman Publishing Company. Hartman Publishing Inc., Albuquerque, NM.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION ITEMS

Official Catalogue of Commemorative Award and Recognition Items for Nursing Assistants - Nursing assistants appreciate your recognition of their efforts. Tangible rewards such as certificates, pins, T-shirts and other items are an on-going reminder of this recognition and can be displayed for family and friends. For convenient on-line ordering or to request a free catalogue. (go to order form)

MEMBERSHIP SUPPLIES

Being a member of your national organization is an important part of your career growth. Many opportunities to work with other nursing assistants for positive change and professional growth in the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants.

Membership applications, pins, and membership materials for individuals and Chapter development are provided by National Network of Career Nursing Assistants. ORDER HERE!

Opportunities for involvement

• The National Leadership Council
• The National Twenty Year Club and the Annual National �Most Service Years� Award
• The Male Nursing Assistants� Task Force
• The Internet Committee
• Provisional Chapter Development in your own facility or region
• Nursing Assistant Savvy Authors� Program
• Speaker Bureaus, panels, committee assignments  

To submit your application to be a member of the National Network of Career Nursing Assistants and enjoy the benefits of a noted professional organization for, by and with direct caregivers in long-term care services.  ORDER HERE!.  

• Individual  Nursing Assistant Membership - $25/Year
• Facility, Chapter or group membership - $100/year
• Corporate membership based on number of beds. Special benefits for corporation membership.
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