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Hospital and health system interventions in Oregon and Pennsylvania are achieving positive outcomes in eliminating maternal mortality and reducing morbidity related to childbirth, two goals of the American Hospital Association (AHA). AONL CEO and AHA senior vice president/chief nursing officer…
This year, the AONL Foundation adopted a new mission, vision and strategic plan. It also began a new financial aid program and awarded multiple research grants. These were made possible by support from AONL members and friends who gave more than $100,000 in 2019. There's still time to give to the…
Use of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) telehealth services is on the rise, the department announced last month.
Researchers estimate eliminating scope-of-practice (SOP) restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs) could produce total annual Medicare cost savings of $44.5 billion in 2013 dollars. The study, which appeared in the November/December issue of Nursing Economic$, employed a multivariate regression…
Results of a recent study showed the introduction of a visual aid into an electronic health record order entry system reduced unintentional duplicate orders for lab and radiology tests by 49% and 40% respectively. The study, which included nearly 184,700 patients, took place in the Beth Israel…
The American Nurses Association (ANA) this week released 13 updated policy statements on the prevention and care for HIV and related conditions. “Our nation cannot solve this epidemic without nurses,” said ANA President Ernest Grant, PhD, RN.
The landmark Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human spurred two decades of system-level approaches to improving the quality and safety of U.S. health care.
The AONL and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) have collaborated since 2010 to explore using academic-practice partnerships to advance the profession by preparing a well-educated workforce. Their work is explored in the December issue of the Journal of Nursing Administration.…
Health care leaders have come around to the idea soft skills, such as empathy, can deliver hard results, such as improved patient outcomes. Central to the debate about soft skills is the concept of joy.
A growing shortage of nursing experience could undermine quality of care the authors of a December JONA article argued.