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Meaningful recognition for nurses varies widely, according to a Journal of Nursing Administration study.
Patients do not accurately remember their discharge instructions, according to a study in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Organizations should re-evaluate attempts at improving medication administration safety and include nurses in identifying solutions, according to a study.
States allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners have NP workforces that are more diverse and more racially and ethnically align with the state’s overall population, according to a study.
Many experienced nurses over the age of 55 would continue to work if hospitals offered flexible scheduling, non-traditional shifts and reduced patient assignments when they are training novice nurses, a study found.
February’s Nurse Leader contains an interview with AONL 2023 keynote speaker artist Phil Hansen.
To mitigate workforce challenges, AONL this week released the second section of its three-part Nursing Leadership Workforce Compendium.
Leaders should use a trauma-informed approach to make the individual and structural changes necessary to create a culture free of racism and focused on equity, according to a Campaign for Action blog.
Utilizing a standardized handoff during discharge from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility significantly decreased the wait time for patients to receive prescriptions for controlled medications and IV antibiotics, a study found.
The Biden Administration last week took steps to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency about nursing home citations to families.