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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a toolkit to help hospitals cut methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections based upon a successful safety program that reduced hospital-onset MRSA bloodstream infections by 65%.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seeks public comments on how data intermediaries, such as health information exchanges and other data-sharing entities can support secure, scalable, standards-based public health data exchange.
The White House issued a presidential proclamation renewing the $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa petitions for individuals entering the U.S., initially levied in September 2025.
In the first segment of a three-part American Hospital Association podcast series, rural hospital leaders discuss how they are sustaining their maternal care units despite workforce shortages, financial pressures and declining birth volumes.
The American Hospital Association and 10 other national healthcare organizations hosted a Capitol Hill briefing highlighting workplace violence and its effects on staff well-being and patient safety.
In a national nursing artificial intelligence workforce study, 48% of respondents said they were likely to seek a role, unit or employer that involved less AI use until the technology becomes more reliable and transparent.
In an executive dialogue sponsored by Health Carousel and AONL, nurse leaders discuss how health systems are re-evaluating staffing decisions to balance financial accountability with long-term workforce stability.
Nurses, as the most trusted healthcare professionals, should advocate for state and federal policies supporting a paradigm shift toward understanding aging as a lifelong biological process warranting communication, prevention efforts and person-centered care, states a Nursing Outlook article.
AONL members Beth Brooks, PhD, RN, and Dan Weberg, PhD, RN, argue venture capitalists and hospitals who dismiss nurse inventors do so to their detriment.
AONL member and Chief Nursing Information Officer Meg Atkins, MSN, RN, says hospitals can reduce nursing documentation burden by considering what they can automate.