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Nursing schools, hospitals and clinics should collaborate to ensure enough preceptors are available to supervise nurse practitioner students for the 500 clinical hours required by accreditors, according to AONL member and consultant Tim Porter-O’Grady, EdD, RN.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans a nursing home staffing campaign to award incentives and tuition payments to nurses committing to careers in skilled nursing, prioritizing those serving in rural and underserved areas.
More than 73% of nurses hold a baccalaureate degree or higher fifteen years after the now-named National Academy of Medicine released a landmark Future of Nursing report calling for the vast majority of nurses to do so.
Nursing researcher Olga Yakusheva, PhD, says artificial intelligence policy should move beyond whether insurers can reimburse for AI and address how health systems measure and govern AI-generated economic value.
The American Hospital Association encourages member hospitals and health systems to apply for the Carolyn Boone Lewis Award for Improving Health Outcomes.
AONL CEO Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, says health systems can improve the nurse manager position by paying attention to the managers’ span of control ─ or number of direct reports the nurse manager oversees ─ and remove responsibilities that can be automated, delegated or reassigned.
The AONL Foundation seeks proposals on responsible implementation, evaluation, governance and the scaling of healthcare technology, informatics and artificial intelligence through nursing leadership.
AONL members elected four individuals to its board of directors to serve three-year terms beginning Jan. 1, 2027.
The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, has awarded $96.7 million in grants and cooperative agreements to expand behavioral health services nationwide.
Geriatric emergency departments, designed to address the risks and needs of elder patients, can reduce hospital admissions and deaths of older adults and lower costs, studies show.