AONL

Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

Whether you’re an aspiring nurse leader, an established director or a seasoned executive, the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) has the essential resources and connections to help guide you along your leadership journey. You can rely on AONL to be a voice for the nursing…
Nurse researchers and other infection preventionists surveyed a national network of corporate-level infection prevention (IP) directors at integrated delivery networks to get a better sense of how the role is evolving. The responses revealed variation and commonalities in IP director…
In an interview with the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), Sandra Bloom, MD, associate professor of health management and policy at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health,
A coalition of 20-plus national organizations representing provider, patient advocacy, addiction and health care advocacy organizations has launched a new effort
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is supporting the use of evidence-based medicine through the development of its clinical decision support tool CDS Connect
Since peaking in 2009, the number of newly diagnosed cases of diabetes in the United States has dropped by 35 percent according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “The findings suggest that our work to stem the tide of type 2 diabetes may be working—but we still have a very…
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) will launch the International Center for Regulatory Scholarship this fall to develop leaders in nursing and health professional regulation. According to NCSBN, there is little formal academic training related to regulation, and the groups’…
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) will be gathering public input for its Future of Nursing 2020-2030
A survey of 150 New York City nurses found that the presence of infectious diseases, even those that are relatively easy to treat, can add substantially to nurses’ workloads.
Research by the chief nursing and medical officers at Press Ganey revealed a positive association between nursing excellence and hospital scores on the Press Ganey