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With violence against emergency department workers increasing, policymakers are debating stiffer penalties for perpetrators.
Health care providers should have mandatory training requirements to better prepare them to assess, manage, report and design interventions for workplace violence prevention, according to an expert panel.
The nursing workforce is becoming more diverse and highly educated but less satisfied, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration.
A staff retention quality-improvement initiative resulted in an 82% decrease in the number of RNs who left their jobs on a neuroscience unit at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, during their first year of employment.
An academic-practice partnership between the University of South Carolina School of Nursing and Prisma Health in Greenville is creating a pipeline of highly skilled new graduate nurses.
Nursing leaders should develop personal relationships with staff and have thoughtful conversations with them to better identify when they may be experiencing burnout, according to AONL member Jennifer Croland, DNP, RN.
AONL and 58 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition thanked Senate Nursing Cause Co-Chair Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and House Nursing Caucus Vice Co-Chair and nurse, Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., for reintroducing the Future Advancement of Academic Nursing Act (H.R. 7266/S. 3770).
A Nurse Leader article describes the ways in which AONL has improved its board diversity by increasing the number of early-career nurse leaders, those serving in non-hospital settings and those from backgrounds underrepresented in nursing leadership.
Nurse managers who have consistent, purposeful interactions with team members ─ such as check-ins and recognition ─ have statistically significant lower RN turnover, an AONL and Laudio Insights report found.
AONL this week announced Children’s Health, Dallas, will receive the AONL Prism Award for advancing diversity efforts.