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To celebrate the Year of the Nurse and Midwife and the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, AONL will take part in the Nightingale Challenge, a global initiative to equip and empower the next generation of nurses.
AONL has named nine 2020 inductees into its fellow designation program, established last year. The AONL fellow designation, FAONL, recognizes a nurse leader’s sustained contributions to the specialty of nursing leadership, commitment to service and influence in shaping health care. “I look forward…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will host a webinar on measuring teamwork on Feb. 19 at noon ET. TeamSTEPPS Program Manager Phyllis Toor will discuss how one large hospital system, the U.S.
The Joint Commission made Accelerate PI, a performance improvement dashboard, available to its accredited hospitals this week. The dashboard uses the most recent data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Compare website to show organizations how they compare on selected…
Researchers at the University of California San Diego report success in sustaining the Healer Education Assessment and Referral (HEAR) suicide prevention program first piloted with nurses in 2016. HEAR combines education, assessment and treatment referral for nurses with reported suicidality. The…
Amplify Nursing, a podcast from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, showcases the profession through conversations with nurses who are leading the way in nursing science, policy and innovation. The first episodes feature photojournalist and filmmaker Carolyn Jones and Antonette…
The Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology is gathering situational awareness about the health care field’s response to the 2019 novel coronavirus. Through the American Medical Informatics Association, ONC developed a short survey to…
Cyber criminals are using the 2019 novel coronavirus to launch malicious phishing campaigns against health systems, the Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response reported. The attacks use emails with attached Word, PDF and MP4 files purporting to…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week issued an emergency use authorization to make the agency’s 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel available to qualified labs throughout the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week issued updated recommendations for health professionals on how the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) spreads and steps health care facilities can take to minimize exposure to the infection while delivering health services.