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The Tri-Council for Nursing released an in-depth report at the start of National Nurses Week, Transforming Together: Implications and Opportunities from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The role of nurses in achieving health equity, screening for social needs and advocating for policy change is the subject of the latest Advancing Health podcast.
This week, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released The Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity.
Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin will keynote the AONL 2021 Virtual Conference in July. During her career, Goodwin explored leadership in her biographies of U.S.
Opioid-related deaths rose in the last year, intensifying the need for effective opioid stewardship programs.
Nearly $1 billion in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding will be used to strengthen COVID-19 response efforts and increase vaccinations in rural communities, Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this week.
Drug maker Eli Lilly is testing a SARS-CoV-2 antibody designed to work against all variants of COVID-19 currently known to be circulating.
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) wrote to the co-sponsors of the Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act of 2021 (H.R. 959/S. 346) to reiterate the coalition’s support for the legislation.
This week, the American Hospital Association (AHA) informed Congressional leaders of the Association’s support for legislation to ease hospital staff shortages.
A University of Missouri study of nursing care for patients with hypertension and Type 2 diabetes found telehealth significantly impacted nurses’ workloads.