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  The COVID-19 pandemic “has unlocked new momentum in the delivery of care to patients, with notable advancements powered by nurses,” wrote Robyn Begley
  
  Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, AONL CEO and American Hospital Association chief nursing officer and senior vice president for workforce, will be a featured speaker during the International Hospital Federation’s World Hospital Congress
  
  Nurse health and well-being, workplace safety, and developing a nursing workforce to meet current and future needs topped the list of research priorities for nursing 
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic “has unlocked new momentum in the delivery of care to patients, with notable advancements powered by nurses,” write Robyn Begley, AONL CEO
  
  Last Friday, the White House announced it will spend $8.5 billion from the American Rescue Plan to help rural health care providers in the fight against COVID-19.
  
  Nurses speaking at a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) virtual gathering last week made the case that nurses—the people closest to the problem
  
  Racial and ethnic disparities in U.S. maternal mortality may be larger than previously reported, according to a study published last week in the American Journal of Public Health 
  
  To reduce the turnover of new RNs, nurse leaders at a Texas health system modified and implemented a business strategy that uses touchpoints as an employee retention strategy
  
  An analysis in the August issue of Nurse Leader outlines the effects of the pandemic on nurse sensitive indicators (NSIs) as described by chief nursing officers from across
  
  This week, the American Nurses Foundation launched the Reimagining Nursing Initiative to catalyze transformative change in the nursing field in three priority areas
  
 
              