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The National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center is hosting a webinar today at noon CT to discuss the clinical importance of proning and its appropriate use.
As health care providers need more nurses to care for patients during surges in COVID-19 cases, some nursing boards have taken steps to facilitate reentry into the workforce for nurses whose licenses have lapsed.
In an April 28 letter to Congressional leaders, the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) thanked Congress for including top NCC priorities in the CARES Act
Participants in the AONL Nurse Manager Fellowship program must complete capstone projects to benefit their sponsoring organizations. Two such projects are detailed in the April issue of Nurse Leader.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this week announced regulations requiring nursing homes to fully cooperate with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) surveillance of the spread of COVID-19 by reporting cases of COVID-19 directly to the CDC.
During an webinar hosted April 22 by the American Hospital Association, senior leaders from Baltimore’s Sheppard Pratt Health System discussed ways to re-engineer care processes and protocols and to perform a virtual assessment designed to decrease the number of psychiatric patients in the…
Eight recommendations for optimizing infection control and operating room management stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development, according to the authors of a recent paper.
The Coalition for Health Funding, which includes AONL, wrote to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations this month to urge Congress to significantly boost federal investments in health in FY 2021.