COVID-19: Caring for Patients and Communities
In a May 7 letter to the White House, Ernest Grant, PhD, RN, president of the American Nurses Association (ANA), thanked President Trump for recognizing nurses’ contributions on the front lines of COVID-19 and urged him to appoint a nurse to the Coronavirus Task Force.
“Nursing’s contributions to improving the public’s health during times of crisis dates back to the days of [Florence] Nightingale, modern nursing’s founder,”
Nurses are making a “monumental difference for patients, families and communities,” wrote Rick Pollack, president and chief executive officer of the American Hospital Association (AHA), as National Nurses Week 2020 got underway
The National Emerging Special Pathogen Training and Education Center is hosting a webinar today at noon CT to discuss the clinical importance of proning and its appropriate use.
Eight recommendations for optimizing infection control and operating room management stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development, according to the authors of a recent paper.