Please remove the proposed regulation that requires that providers obtain a professional reference for a nurse aide applicant who has only worked for 1 employer. This requirement will comprimise the percentage of potentially qualified workers. It will discouraged them because of the inability to get a response from a previous employer.  There is already a shortage of nurse aides.  Placing this strain on them, will put a limitation on aides we have to cover the care of clients/patients. 

I am asking that personal references continue to be allowed.