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The Joint Commission and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) will hold National Time Out Day on June 8 to underscore the need for surgical teams to make adequate time to pause before a procedure for prevention of wrong site, wrong person or wrong procedure surgeries.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday it will release some of the 1,000+ doses of Jynneos smallpox vaccine
Coordinated investment in nursing education, clinical placement capacity, and federal and state bodies to monitor the nursing workforce are among the recommendations of a report released this week
Training nurse champions is one of four strategies employed by Los Angeles-based Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in its postpartum depression screening, education and referral program, launched in 2017.
A recent study from Northwestern Medicine found the incidence of high blood pressure disorders amongst pregnant individuals more than doubled from 2007 to 2019
American Nurses Foundation (ANF) awarded the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) $1.5. million to launch a three-year effort to promote competency-based education.
The Lean concept Leader Standard Work (LSW) represents a framework for helping leaders and organizations implement sustainable change to improve efficiencies
National Steering Committee for Patient Safety (NSC) issued Safer Together: A National Action Plan to Advance Patient Safety to urge health care leaders to recommit to advancing patient and workforce safety.
The public comment period for the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Clinician Well-Being Collaborative’s National Plan for Health Workforce Well-being ends at midnight tonight.