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Nursing leaders should develop personal relationships with staff and have thoughtful conversations with them to better identify when they may be experiencing burnout, according to AONL member Jennifer Croland, DNP, RN.
AONL and 58 other members of the Nursing Community Coalition thanked Senate Nursing Cause Co-Chair Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and House Nursing Caucus Vice Co-Chair and nurse, Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., for reintroducing the Future Advancement of Academic Nursing Act (H.R. 7266/S. 3770).
A Nurse Leader article describes the ways in which AONL has improved its board diversity by increasing the number of early-career nurse leaders, those serving in non-hospital settings and those from backgrounds underrepresented in nursing leadership.
Nurse managers who have consistent, purposeful interactions with team members ─ such as check-ins and recognition ─ have statistically significant lower RN turnover, an AONL and Laudio Insights report found.
AONL this week announced Children’s Health, Dallas, will receive the AONL Prism Award for advancing diversity efforts.
The U.S. should develop better diagnostics, vaccines and treatments to enhance its readiness for an outbreak involving smallpox or related diseases, according to a report released this week from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The American Hospital Association invites hospitals to apply for its 2025 Foster G. McGaw Prize.
Front-line nurses and other health workers could benefit from paid sabbaticals, a STAT op-ed suggests.
A charge nurse at Sentara Leigh Hospital came up with an idea for a patient acuity nursing tool to optimize nursing assignments, resulting in improved care for patients and workload for nurses.
Implementing an acuity-adaptable model on a dedicated noncritical trauma unit improved efficiency and resource utilization without decreasing quality of care, a study found.