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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is proposing to expand access to behavioral health services through the coverage of intensive outpatient services.
Relationships and validating the nurse manager role, including instituting supportive structures and processes, will influence the impact of nurse manager recognition, a study found.
AONL’s Workforce Compendium is featured in the July/August issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration.
AONL is co-sponsoring the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action’s Equity-Minded Leader Award.
Organizational leaders, nurse managers and direct care nurses ─ not policymakers ─ should align staffing with patient needs, AONL states.
An American Hospital Association podcast explores how Gillette Children’s Hospital in Saint Paul, Minn., fosters trust in COVID-19 vaccines and other necessary pediatric vaccinations as part of a larger goal of protecting families and their communities.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced this week it has released a blueprint for investing approximately $100 million per year on initiatives to get local health care systems closer to providing more equitable, whole-person care across a person’s lifespan.
The Department of Health and Human Services last week launched a Health Workforce Initiative.
M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital in Minnesota offers an Emergency Psychiatry Assessment, Treatment and Health unit for behavioral health patients.
A family-centered, school-based intervention led by school nurses uses parents and teachers as role models for healthy eating and other behaviors could reduce childhood obesity, a study found.