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To mitigate possible disruptions in the medical product sector, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is surveilling the supply chain for potential shortages of medical products and raw materials produced in China. This effort includes tracking reports of orders for personal protective…
With the possibility COVID-19 cases may spread in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hosted a webinar featuring strategies health care organizations can use to ensure they have proper protocols and adequate personal protective equipment (PPE) on hand to manage…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will host a webinar framing gun violence as a complex biopsychosocial disease. This webinar will help participants identify opportunities for preventing gun violence and making the communities they serve healthier and safer.
The Joint Commission issued a Quick Safety advisory on psychiatric advance directives (PADs) this week.
In response to the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reiterated its recommendation to health care facilities to use a hierarchy of controls to prevent infectious disease transmission.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two memos this week with guidance for health care facilities and the state survey agencies that inspect those facilities.
Writing in Nursing Economic$, administrators at Seton Hall College of Nursing called on nurses in all settings to take action to address the opioid epidemic.
A letter from a nursing journal editor to the editor of Becker’s Hospital Review took issue with that publication’s characterization of nurse practitioners (NPs) as “midlevel” providers and criticized the implication that employing NPs at a Chicago-area immediate care clinic could place patients at…
Precepting can be an effective retention strategy for novice nurses according to Solimar Figueroa, PhD, RN, a clinical collaborator for the American Academy for Preceptor Advancement. Trained preceptors can give inexperienced nurses needed confidence and increase their competence by showing them…
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) issued a statement this week expressing concern over cuts to domestic and health care spending in President Trump’s proposed FY 2021 budget. With the exception of NURSE Corps, the budget eliminates all Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs, which…