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Beyond Birth, a podcast series from the American Hospital Association, explores medical complications that can accompany pregnancy, successful prenatal and postpartum treatment programs and discusses how hospitals are addressing new mothers’ needs.
The Health Resources and Services Administration last week launched the Enhancing Maternal Health Initiative.
A recent study found a “substantial and persistent” increase in health care workforce turnover following the pandemic, concluding the pandemic may have long-term implications for workers’ remaining in health care jobs.
A recent commentary urges all health care organizations to adopt communication and resolution programs to respond to and disclose medical errors and adverse events.
Nursing leaders and other hospital leadership should actualize staff nurse autonomy within nursing staffing committees and better value staff nurses perspectives, according to a study.
Nursing leaders at Salinas Valley Health Medical Center in Salinas, Calif., describe how they created and implemented clinical nurse, nurse leader and nurse executive accountability grids with clearly delineated authority for decision-making in professional governance.
A three-session caring science program was successful in supporting nurses and interdisciplinary colleagues to connect to self and caring for others but did not affect turnover, a study found.
To improve recruitment and retention, health systems are reestablishing the academic partnerships that collapsed during the pandemic, according to AONL member Maribeth McLaughlin, MPM, RN, vice president and CNE at UPMC Health System in Pittsburgh.
AONL and 40 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition expressed opposition to the Protecting Lifesaving Anesthesia Care for Veterans Act of 2023 (H.R. 3347/S. 2070).
AONL member Kate FitzPatrick, DNP, RN, this week participated on a panel urging Congress to protect health care workers from violence.