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CNOs should educate other nursing and hospital leaders about technology alternatives enabling needleless blood draws, according to AONL member and CNO Anna Kiger, DNP, RN.
The Veterans Administration seeks applicants to serve on its Geriatrics and Gerontology Advisory Committee.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, Corewell Health Chief Operating Officer Darryl Elmouchi, MD, discusses how the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based hospital system piloted programs to enable its workforce to prioritize patient care.
More than 75 nursing and health organizations condemned a recent Bloomberg article, “The Miseducation of America’s Nurse Practitioners.”
The Nursing Community Coalition released a statement commending the Senate Appropriations Committee for maintaining funding for nursing education, workforce development and research.
In an interview in the August issue of Nurse Leader, AONL Education Director Elaine Perkins, MS, RN, describes AONL’s nurse manager programs.
An article in the August issue of Nurse Leader describes the efforts of Children’s Health to prioritize diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in workforce development and operations led to it receive the 2024 AONL Prism Award.
The U.S. infant mortality rate increased in 2022 for the first time in 20 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 20,500 babies died in 2022 before they turned one.
Between 118,000 and 248,000 more Americans would have survived the COVID-19 pandemic if all U.S. states had followed the mask requirements and vaccine mandates practiced in Northeastern states, a Journal of the American Medical Association study found.
Infection prevention strategies to reduce surgical site infections should be tailored more to the patient and less to the hospital environment, says an author of a study suggesting the majority of surgical site infections stem from bacteria acquired before the patient enters the hospital.