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This white paper will also provide an overview of a recent AMN Healthcare survey that looked at the welfare of our frontline caregivers.

AONL has developed innovative models of care resources from a real-time survey conducted at the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Easy to use technology enables providers to simply be providers. By augmenting patient care with technology services, health care providers can focus on treating their patients.

The need for nursing to move to one national licensure model is critical for each state’s ability to provide healthcare that Americans expect and deserve. 

Nurses are high-level targets for cybersecurity scams, including spear phishing, impersonations, malware and ransomware attacks. Scammers target the nurses and health care officials because of the highly-sensitive information that is communicated.

Now more than ever is the time to reflect on nursing’s role in addressing the issues heightened by COVID-19 and to inform a progressive path forward where nurses are well-positioned and prepared to meet the evolving needs of our patients, communities and health care system.

The proliferation of new bedside medical devices and other system and technologies, including EHRs, smartphones, secure texting apps and more, has added new demands on nurses in the hospital. That demand has only intensified since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

EvergreenHealth is located in Kirkland, Wash., just outside of Seattle and was the first hospital in the country to treat a wave of patients diagnosed with community-spread COVID-19.

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An unrecognized and misunderstood asset of hospitals today is patient data. Clinicians rely on data to make informed decisions, but too often they do not get the right type of data at the right time.

Nurses are being redeployed to unfamiliar units to care for the surge of critically ill patients entering hospitals globally. Learn how virtual orientation can help effectively redeploy your nurses.

Facing COVID-19, new nurses are entering a more stressful and emotionally exhausting environment than ever before. Learn how to best support this critical transition during these unprecedented times.

Primary and acute care practitioners have unique opportunities and a growing sense of responsibility to address substance use and mental health disorders in routine office visits.

To help you lead confidently during times of crisis, AONL has developed a growing compendium of leadership resources to support you in caring for yourself and your team.

This policy brief is the collaborative effort of nursing leaders who propose and support academic-practice partnerships between health care facilities and pre-licensure registered nursing (RN) and practical/vocational nursing (PN/VN) programs across the country during the COVID-19 crisis. This is one potential model to consider. It is not mandated, rather an innovative approach to meeting academic and workforce needs.

The linkage between nursing care and patient outcomes is widely accepted, yet it is often difficult to achieve an evidence-based allocation of nursing resources that is understood and accepted by all. AONL, ANA and HFMA have teamed up to chart a path forward. This document explores the evolution from conventional, quasi-adversarial nursing/finance relationships to patients-first interprofessional collaboration and sets forth an action plan to improve nursing resource allocation and the value that patients receive.

[Sponsored] The four essential practices you need to think differently about personalizing experiences, exceeding your patients’ expectations, and set yourself apart in a demanding digital society.

The role of the system chief nurse executive (CNE) is a sub specialty of nursing leadership and requires its own set of competencies. Guided by the AONL Nurse Executive Competencies’ domains: communication and relationship building, knowledge of the healthcare environment, leadership, and professionalism, business skills the following competencies describe the skills, knowledge, and attributes of nurse leaders in the role of the system chief nurse executive. 

The Nursing Organizations Alliance believes that a healthy practice environment is supported by the presence of the following elements.