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AONL developed its workforce compendium to support nurse leaders by focusing on how to attract, re-engage and help nurse leaders thrive, according to AONL Senior Director of Professional Practice Rhonda Hughes, PhD, RN.
Mandating federal staffing ratios for nursing homes would accelerate the labor shortage across the continuum of care and reduce access to care for older Americans, according to the American Hospital Association and the American Health Care Association.
In Becker’s Hospital Review, AONL CEO Robyn Begley explains the organization’s opposition to mandatory nurse-staffing ratios.
AONL and George Washington University conducted a pilot program with 20 CNOs to improve their communication and media engagement strategy skills.
The declining number of available pediatric beds, coupled with a workforce shortage in skilled nursing and a skyrocketing mental health crisis among children and adolescents, are limiting pediatric care access.
The expanded availability of opioid use disorder-related telehealth services and medications during the pandemic was linked to a reduced likelihood of fatal drug overdoses among Medicare beneficiaries, a study found.
Patient-safety education programs can improve the patient-safety culture of health care professionals, but repeated trainings may be needed to sustain the interventions, a study found.
Social frailty ─ defined by a lack of close relationships, less involvement in community groups or religious organizations and living in a less safe neighborhood ─ is garnering attention as a factor linked to poor health outcomes later in life.
A digital health tool will enable non-English speakers to describe their pain symptoms to emergency department care providers, with the goal of improving their health outcomes.
To address clinician well-being, the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville started the Center for Healthy Minds and Practice.