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Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
The AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education recently awarded research funding to Kelley Kostich, RN, a PhD candidate at University of Missouri, Kansas City, to investigate the nurse leader's role in patient experience, safety and clinician well-being. Kostich, who is…
Making sure the nursing workforce feels safe, engaged and valued should be a top priority for chief nursing officers (CNOs) in 2020. That’s the view of AONL member Shela Kaneshiro, MBA, RN, vice president, patient care services and CNO at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley…
AONL CEO and American Hospital Association (AHA) senior vice president and chief nursing officer Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, lends her voice to a recent AHA podcast looking at maternal morbidity and mortality. The podcast, part of the AHA’s Advancing Health series, also features Ginny Trainor, program…
In a letter to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), AONL stated its support for CCNE’s position that nurse practitioner (NP) “residency/fellowship programs” are voluntary in nature unlike their medical counterparts.
Happy New Year! I am both honored and excited to be serving as your 2020 AONL board president.
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant decrease in the number of opioids prescribed to adults upon discharge from emergency departments in recent years. CDC researchers reviewed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for 2006…
The Joint Commission seeks comment by Feb. 3 on two proposed requirements related to medication management. The first defines the minimum required elements of a complete medication order as “the medication name, medication dose, medication route and medication frequency.” The second makes changes…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released performance data this week for the Quality Payment Program (QPP), which is intended to incentivize cost-effective care.
How Americans pay for care and how providers are reimbursed is the subject of this month’s issue of Health Affairs. The issue includes the first systematic review of three bundled payment programs established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2009.
The American Journal of Nursing’s list of stories to watch in 2020 runs the gamut—from disease specific topics such as Ebola (promising treatments are in development) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), which caused an unusually high number of deaths in 2019, to workplace issues such as the…