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TAKEheart, a free, 12-month long cardiac rehabilitation initiative, will be holding an informational webinar on Oct. 8 from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. CT. Designed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, TAKEheart will help hospitals improve health outcomes by automating referral processes and…
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare is asking health care systems to join an early adopter cohort that will begin using the Center’s Targeted Solutions Tool this October to combat sepsis. The tool reflects lessons learned from earlier center initiatives that produced 20% to 50%…
Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, noted that several new bills will address health care disparities and health coverage in maternal health. A Sept.
While health care systems have focused their efforts on identifying and responding to victims of human trafficking, few hospitals have instituted models for long-term, integrated care of these same individuals to help them move from victimization to survivorship. The Medical Safe Haven clinic…
Nurses are historically underrepresented on all types of governing boards, but according to the Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC), the number of nurses serving on boards has grown considerably in recent years, from 3,111 in 2017 to 5,034 as of this June.
Two Tennessee nurse leaders are addressing housing, education, transportation, employment and other nonmedical factors that have a profound influence on mental and physical health. As clinical director of the Tennessee Department of Health’s Office of Primary Prevention, Patti Scott, DNP, PNP, is…
The rise of opioid use across the country is only one contributor to workplace violence at rural hospitals. AONL board member Kevin McEwan, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer at Madison Memorial Hospital in rural Rexburg, Idaho, says dementia, delirium, pain and medications can also cause altered…
A roundup of views from nurse leaders across the nation reveals they share the same challenges despite working in vastly different settings. The growing incidence of workplace violence is a concern across facilities, especially with more patients seeking care in connection with opioid addiction and…
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) is urging Congress to advance the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2019 (S.1399), a bipartisan bill that would reauthorize nursing workforce development programs through 2024.