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Nurses have 11 more days to submit applications to the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge in COVID-19 Patient Care, cosponsored by AONL and the Society of Nurse Scientists, Innovators, Entrepreneurs & Leaders (SONSIEL).
To help members navigate challenges related to recruiting, training, retaining and managing a qualified and engaged workforce, the American Hospital Association (AHA) released its 2021 Health Care Talent Scan.
Technical guidance to support effective use of antigen tests in various testing situations was updated this week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The guidance summarizes the differences between diagnostic, screening, and surveillance testing and provides links to regulatory…
Health systems working to calculate their resource needs before a surge in COVID-19 can now avail themselves of a surge planning tool released by UCLA Health. The tool projects the numbers of inpatient beds, ICU beds and ventilators needed over a two-week period when predictions are highly accurate…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched Care Compare last week, a streamlined redesign of eight existing CMS health care comparison tools. The site is intended to give patients and caregivers an easier way to access information about physicians, hospitals and health care…
Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 is prompting a closer examination of the Hospital at Home model of care, which makes acute care available to patients in their homes.
A review of methods used for proning in the intensive care unit, including the required staffing, necessary equipment, safety for caregivers and relative risks for patients, will be the subject of a webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association (AHA) Sept.16 at 1 p.m. ET.
A study of 83 COVID-19 patients who were proned while placed on a ventilator found 12 developed peripheral nerve injury involving one or more major joints. The injuries were severe and included loss of hand function, frozen shoulder and foot dragging.
Stress from treating patients with COVID-19 can take a deep toll on nurses, putting them at risk of moral distress, compassion fatigue and burnout. A group of nursing organizations is responding with the Well-Being Initiative, and individual hospitals have employed a range of tactics to support…