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AONL and 25 other national nursing organizations met on Sept. 9 with the White House Council on Environmental Quality to discuss ways to address extreme heat and plan for future actions.
AONL seeks candidates from academia, care continuum and industry for up to three appointed board member positions for 2025-2026.
AONL and the AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education invite nominations for its awards for exemplary leaders.
The Joint Commission International will host a free webinar on diagnostic safety on Sept. 17 from 7:30-8:30 a.m. ET.
Facilities using a rounding checklist in the intensive care unit had lower rates of in-hospital and ICU mortality, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Journal of Patient Safety Network.
Sepsis survivors face significant risk for readmission, with high rates for those discharged to home health care or home settings, according to a study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Critical Care.
The high costs associated with adopting artificial intelligence-powered ambient clinical documentation tools could create a divide between hospital systems able to afford them and those that cannot.
Race-based algorithms are still used widely across medicine to guide clinical care, even though growing numbers of clinicians, researchers and health care leaders contend it is problematic to consider people of different races as biologically different and to incorporate those outdated beliefs into…
The U.S. will have 73,000 fewer nursing assistants than needed by 2028, according to a Mercer report.
Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas developed a multifaceted nursing pipeline post-pandemic by creating an unlicensed assistive personnel program, implementing a student-nurse externship program, rebuilding its transition-to-practice program and recruiting internationally educated nurses