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The American Health Care Association filed a lawsuit earlier this month urging a federal court to overturn the Biden Administration’s mandatory minimum staffing requirements on nursing homes.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing released a white paper for nursing educators providing guidance on competency-based education and learning assessment.
Nurses entering the hospice field often are unprepared for the quantity and complexity of emotional, physical and spiritual needs among the dying population, making onboarding programs necessary.
Allegheny Health Network is seeing burnout rates below the national average from its six-year effort to improve the well-being of advance practice providers, nurses and physicians.
Hospitals should reconnect nurses to their original calling of providing compassionate care to patients to reduce burnout, write AONL members and Press Ganey employees Nora Warshawsky, PhD, RN, a nurse scientist, and Mary Jo Assi, DNP, RN, associate CNO.
Mount Sinai Health System wants to expand its virtual nursing program platform to include other hospital departments to streamline care coordination.
AONL was one of 63 organizations representing health care workers to sign onto a support letter praising Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee leadership for their efforts to support the reauthorization of the Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act (H.R. 7153/S. 3679).
The American Hospital Association last week thanked the senators and representatives who introduced a bill to extend for five years the hospital-at-home program.
AONL CEO Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, will retire at the end of the year.
Robyn Begley, CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, AONL Foundation president and AHA’s chief nursing officer, announced her plans to retire at the end of this year.