AONL
Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).
Patients do not accurately remember their discharge instructions, according to a study in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.
Organizations should re-evaluate attempts at improving medication administration safety and include nurses in identifying solutions, according to a study.
States allowing full practice authority for nurse practitioners have NP workforces that are more diverse and more racially and ethnically align with the state’s overall population, according to a study.
Many experienced nurses over the age of 55 would continue to work if hospitals offered flexible scheduling, non-traditional shifts and reduced patient assignments when they are training novice nurses, a study found.
February’s Nurse Leader contains an interview with AONL 2023 keynote speaker artist Phil Hansen.
To mitigate workforce challenges, AONL this week released the second section of its three-part Nursing Leadership Workforce Compendium.
Leaders should use a trauma-informed approach to make the individual and structural changes necessary to create a culture free of racism and focused on equity, according to a Campaign for Action blog.
Utilizing a standardized handoff during discharge from a hospital to a skilled nursing facility significantly decreased the wait time for patients to receive prescriptions for controlled medications and IV antibiotics, a study found.
The Biden Administration last week took steps to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency about nursing home citations to families.
The Health Resources and Services Administration issued this month a Bureau of Health Workforce Footprint Map.