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Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and individual states launched the Nurses for Nursing Homes initiative to recruit and retain nurses working in nursing homes.
Nurse leaders should tweak clinical ladders annually to ensure they address individual nurse needs, says Cathy Stankiewicz, DNP, RN, CNO, AdventHealth Central Florida Division.
With Gen Z nurses comprising the second-largest nurse cohort, leaders are observing the factors causing them to quit.
John Muir Health’s generative artificial intelligence tool creates end-of-shift summaries that capture what nurses documented, their flow sheets and medications they administered. During the second and third quarters, nurses generated nearly 100,000 shift-care plan notes.
Because frontline nurses encounter problems that can be difficult to see from outside daily patient care, hospital leaders are giving nurses opportunities to develop, test and refine their ideas for improving care, states an American Hospital Association market scan.
A Journal of Nursing Administration study found strong nursing leadership contributed to a hospital-wide virtual nursing program’s success in improving workflow efficiency and enhancing operational outcomes.
AONL will co-sponsor the 4th Annual National Nurse Wellbeing Conference Nov. 18-20 in Washington, D.C. Hosted by Columbia, Md.-based MedStar Health, the conference aims to prepare healthcare workers and leaders to cultivate wellbeing programs within their work environment.
The Leadership Laboratory is a blended learning program (virtual sessions and online work) held over a six-month period. The program is a fresh format for the leadership development of nurse managers and is facilitated by Dr. Barbara Mackoff.
Georgia is using more than $12 million of its $219 million first-year Rural Health Transformation Program funds to place obstetric carts in 43 rural hospitals without labor and delivery units.