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Nurse's aides provide the majority of care to resi- dents in nursing homes. Few researchers have studied the percep- tions of aides and attempted to understand their attitudes towihd their work and interactions with residents, families, and staff. This qualitative, pilot study i s a report of intensive interviews with 27 aides in 3 nursing homes. The purposes of the study were to probe the aide's perceptions on their satisfaction with compensation, training, and work load assignments in addition to probing the thorny issues around racism and abuse issues in their nursing homes.
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Mercer et al. (1994) studied this question.
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