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Cybersecurity journalist Casey Crane provided cogent advice to Daily Nurse about cybersecurity in the health sector. She emphasized best practices such as having unique passwords for each account, not clicking on attachments unless they come from trusted sources and never connecting personal…
Nurses have 11 more days to submit applications to the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in COVID-19 Patient Care, cosponsored by AONL and the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders (SONSIEL).
To help members navigate challenges related to recruiting, training, retaining and managing a qualified and engaged workforce, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released its 2021 Health Care Talent Scan.
Technical guidance to support effective use of antigen tests in various testing situations was updated this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The guidance summarizes the differences between diagnostic, screening, and surveillance testing and provides links to regulatory…
Health systems working to calculate their resource needs before a surge in COVID-19 can now avail themselves of a surge planning tool released by UCLA Health. The tool projects the numbers of inpatient beds, ICU beds and ventilators needed over a two-week period when predictions are highly accurate…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Care Compare last week, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS health care comparison tools. The site is intended to give patients and caregivers an easier way to access information about physicians, hospitals and health care…
Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 is prompting a closer examination of the Hospital at Home model of care, which makes acute care available to patients in their homes.