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Pandemic restrictions on the ability of patients’ families to spend time at the bedside has caused suffering for all parties, including nurses.
Hospitals eager to ease overcrowding and insurers eager to lower costs are embracing the hospital-at-home concept, already employed by roughly two dozen health systems.
When Sherri Becker was a new nurse working the night shift in 1983, a young, Black man with sickle cell disease (SCD) was admitted in crisis.
Researchers with the Missouri Quality Initiative report staffing nursing homes with full-time advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) backed by an operations support team reduced unnecessary hospitalizations of nursing home residents.
The rapid decision-making process, which Atlanta’s Emory Health System began using during the COVID-19 pandemic, is here to stay, according to Sharon Pappas, PhD, RN, the system’s chief nurse executive.
Last week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) urged the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) to prioritize actions and programs that will support the nation’s health care workforce in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Nearly 240 nurse leaders from 37 states attended AONL’s virtual advocacy day on May 27, visiting their elected federal representatives and senators.
Health professionals and their partners in combating human trafficking are invited to attend a two-hour, June 3 virtual workshop, Banding Together in the Fight Against Human Trafficking.
A Systematic, Big Data Approach to Reducing Burnout and Violence is the subject of a May 25, noon ET, webinar sponsored by the American Hospital Association Physician Alliance.
A study by researchers at multiple academic health centers found implementing a medication reconciliation intervention at the system and patient levels reduced unintentional medication discrepancies in admission or discharge orders.