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When two nurses became infected with Ebola in 2014, the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) gained attention, and the federal government appropriated funds to ensure medical facilities were prepared to take care of highly infectious patients.
Bill Novelli, MA, is perhaps best known for his role as the former CEO at AARP, but he is also a nursing champion who served on the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) committee that produced the landmark report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, in coalition with other advocacy groups filed a lawsuit this week challenging
During its annual meeting earlier this week in Chicago, the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates adopted several new policies.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a request for information seeking new ideas to advance its Patients over Paperwork initiative, which aims to reduce administrative burdens in order to free up health system resources for the delivery of high-quality care.
As part of its mission to improve the treatment of patients with auto-immune diseases or cancer, the DAISY Foundation is offering two types of grants to encourage RNs to further evidence-based practice.
In response to the evolving roles and responsibilities of licensed nurses and assistive personnel, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and the American Nurses Association (ANA) have jointly issued updated delegation guidelines, which are applicable to nurses at all licensure…
Before addressing patients' social needs, clinicians need to fully understand what the people they care for are experiencing.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) this week voiced support for legislation (S. 1399) to revise and extend federal programs to develop the nursing workforce recently introduced by Sens.
Writing in this month’s issue of Medical Care, Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), and his colleagues propose ways to leverage technology to promote health equity.