AONL
Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
At the AONL 2020 Virtual Conference in September, Advocate Aurora Health Board Chair Joanne Disch, PhD, RN, and the Milwaukee-based health system’s Executive Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, shared their thoughts on how to meet the challenges of being a nurse…
An analysis of blood drawn from a random sample of 28,503 U.S. adults receiving dialysis in July 2020 found fewer than 10% had antibodies for COVID-19. Whether the finding would hold for all U.S. adults is uncertain.
AONL, in addition to the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Nurses Association, is endorsing the Frontline Heroes Act, (H.R. 8441) which would provide survival benefits to the families of health care workers who die from COVID-19 and disability benefits to health care workers…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data this week on the incidence of COVID-19 in children.
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.