COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning
To help rural communities address the challenges of delivering quality care via telehealth, especially during emergencies, the National Quality Forum (NQF) announced it convened a committee this week in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
Among the lessons learned during the pandemic, “Opening lines of communication top down and bottom up is vital, with administrators providing regular updates about cases, new protocols
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a more highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2, B.1.1.7, has been detected in 12 U.S. states, putting the country at risk for a rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
The COVID-19 pandemic left many hospital systems struggling to overcome imbalances in the national supply of nurses.
A protocol reduced episodes of self-harm among at-risk patients in one large, urban emergency department (ED) by more than half, according to a study in this month’s Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
This month’s Nursing Outlook highlights a collaboration at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), which engaged nurse practitioner
Doing the most possible with limited resources is the subject of a recent webinar available on-demand from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).