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AONL and 56 other Nursing Community Coalition members urged the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs leaders to advance the Improving Access to Workers’ Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act of 2025 (S. 3296).
AONL will host a webinar on its refreshed Nurse Leader Competency Framework on Aug. 13 at 1:00 ET. AONL recently updated the core leadership competencies to reflect healthcare’s growing complexity and evolving leadership expectations.
Welcome to the first installment of our new AONL Leadership Updates. As part of our commitment to greater transparency and member engagement, these updates will provide a closer look at the work of your AONL Board of Directors, the priorities guiding our decisions and the many ways you can help…
A survey instrument developed by researchers at Penn Medicine is helping healthcare leaders better understand how emergency nurses perceive their safety in the workplace, particularly regarding patient violence.
Pregnant women and parents of young kids said they would rather receive the maternal respiratory syncytial virus vaccine during pregnancy to protect their child against the virus, a national survey published in JAMA Network Open found.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, AHA’s Advanced Practice Provider Leadership Advisory Group Chair Leslie Clayton, PA-C, says health systems need executive-level advanced practice provider leaders who are involved in strategic planning to ensure health systems best utilize the untapped…
Collaboration between federal and state policymakers, payers, financial institutions and health systems is necessary to overcome structural barriers limiting growth of nurse practitioner-owned primary care practices, a study found.
Pittsburgh-based UPMC implemented a career-ladder structure to retain advanced degree nurses, who are more likely to leave their roles.
The American Red Cross announced its second-ever national blood supply crisis after blood donations decreased to a four-year summer low and are not keeping pace with hospital demand.
Nurse leaders should build relationships with their congressional representatives to advocate for nursing effectively, say AONL President-elect Stuart Downs, DNP, RN, and Board Member Jacqueline Herd, DNP, RN.