Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19)
Doing the most possible with limited resources is the subject of a recent webinar available on-demand from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN).
To thank caregivers, Musicians on Call is offering access to Hope for the Holidays, a virtual concert featuring award-winning artists Dolly Parton, Billie Eilish, Leslie Odom Jr. and others.
With COVID-19 increasing patients’ pain and morbidity and exacerbating high levels of clinician burnout and moral distress, integrating palliative and critical care “has never been more crucial,” according to the authors of an article in December’s Critical Care Nurse.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) posted two requests for information last week.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its Acute Hospital Care at Home program in November to increase the capacity of the health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Asking asymptomatic COVID-exposed staff to work and using 36-hour shifts are among the strategies hospitals have employed to cope with severe nurse staffing shortages during the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Biden-Harris transition team named Jane Hopkins, RNMH, to its COVID-19 Advisory Board. Hopkins worked for over 20 years as a bedside nurse, most recently at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and Snoqualmie (Wash.) Hospital and serves on the state’s COVID task force and Safe Start Advisory…