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Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Optimizing technology, developing nurse managers and retaining bedside staff are among the challenges CNOs regularly tackle. Three CNOs, including AONL member Karen Mayer, PhD, RN, shared their solutions with HealthLeaders Media.
This week, the House of Representatives passed the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (H.R. 728). AONL and the American Hospital Association (AHA) support the legislation, which would reauthorize federal programs to develop the nursing workforce for five years.
Errors in communication during handoffs are a potential source of medical errors and risk to patients.
Working in collaboration with HEAL Trafficking and Jones Day, the American Hospital Association (AHA) will
With more than 60% of surgeries now performed in outpatient...
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is moving forward with plans to launch a new philanthropic enterprise in 2020, the Foundation for Academic Nursing.
In anticipation of the 20th anniversary of the DAISY Foundation in November, the Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA) asked four AONL members to reflect on the significance of the foundation’s DAISY Award. The award program honors nurses who exhibit extraordinary compassion, and in the hands of…
Last week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an update to its 1998 guidelines on preventing and controlling infection in the health care workplace.
Using the guiding principles of academic-practice partnerships outlined by AONL and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, nurse scientists described the outcomes, facilitators and vulnerabilities associated with their role in an article in Nursing Outlook. The authors were PhD-prepared…
An analysis of data on female nurses participating in the Nurses’ Health Study II found a significant association between occupational exposure to disinfectants and the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Among the 73,262 nurses studied, 16,786 (23%) reported weekly use…