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A bipartisan trio of senators joined their House Republican colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act resolution to overturn the Biden Administration’s staff ratio rule for nursing homes.
Mercy CNE and AONL member Betty Jo Rocchio, DNP, RN, reassures front-line nurses that artificial intelligence will improve patient outcomes by retrieving information out of electronic health records to the front lines.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, three experts at the award-winning Women and Infant Substance Help Center at SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., discuss how the center is helping mothers get off and stay off opioids and other substances.
The Department of Health and Human Services this week announced declines in uninsurance rates among Black, Latino, Asian and Native American communities from 2010-2022.
RWJBarnabas Health decreased patient deaths by 20% in the past two years after implementing a deterioration index and sepsis alert into its electronic health record.
The increased use of agency staffing was associated with decreased performance in six of eight quality measures, a study found.
AONL member Deborah Stamps, EdD, RN, will facilitate a webinar exploring how nurses are promoting health equity on June 17 from 3:00-4:30 ET.
An American Hospital Association podcast describes how WellSpan Health has reduced workplace violence by 75% since 2019. Kenneth Rogers, MD, vice president and chief medical officer, discusses how the York, Pa.-based health system implemented a behavioral health emergency response team to de-…
Further research will help to determine if a violence assessment tool to mitigate workplace violence positively affects nurse empowerment and satisfaction and reduces turnover and burnout, a pilot study concluded.
AONL and the Nursing Community Coalition’s other 63 members signed a letter thanking the House and Senate Nursing Caucus leadership and 27 bipartisan House and Senate members for introducing a resolution (S. Res. 676/H. Res. 1208) supporting the goals and ideals of National Nurses Week.