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An American Hospital Association (AHA) webinar on Oct. 8 at 1 p.m. ET will identify best practices related to telemetry utilization and alarm management and give attendees tools they can use to identify improvement opportunities.
The experience of a 361-bed independent medical center using telemedicine and telemonitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic forms the core of an Oct. 7 webinar hosted by the American Hospital Association.
The March of Dimes launched BlanketChange.org, using the hospital receiving blanket as an emblem of the organization’s call to improve maternal health outcomes through equity, access and prevention.
The challenge of communicating with patients on ventilators became widespread during the pandemic. Mary Beth Happ, PhD, RN, distinguished professor of nursing at Ohio State University, provided tips for communication with these patients in a recent article in Medpage Today.
The imposition of a flu vaccine mandate at a large health care organization raised the rates of immunization from 70% to 98.4% in one year.
An analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data collected from mid-February to mid-July found nurses predominated among health care professionals (HCPs) who contracted COVID-19.
The challenge of obtaining adequate, high-quality clinical placements for graduate nursing students emerged as a primary concern in a recent survey by the AACN-AONL advisory committee.
With the pandemic adding additional urgency to issues surrounding resource allocation, a 2020 report coauthored by Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, AONL CEO and senior vice president and chief nursing officer of the American Hospital Association, was especially timely.
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued its first emergency use authorization for a point-of-care COVID-19 antibody test.