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The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) pledged to work with the Biden-Harris administration to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and advance “sound health care policy grounded in science.”
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated guidance this month related to its emergency use authorizations for N95 respirator decontamination systems. The authorization now limits respirator reuse to no more than four times.
Findings of a survey by commissioned by AONL, the American Nurses Association and Johnson & Johnson reveal the COVID-19 pandemic
A commission to examine and confront the issue of racism within nursing and its impact on nurses, patients, communities and health care systems held its inaugural meeting this week. AONL is a member of the commission, led by an ethnically diverse group of national organizations representing nursing…
To improve recruitment and retention, nurse managers may want to focus less on turnover and vacancy rates and adopt an appreciative perspective using retention and loyalty rates as measures of organizational stability, according to an article in HealthLeaders Media.
In a study of staff nurses at acute care Alabama hospitals, nurse burnout significantly predicted self-reported medication administration errors (MAEs).
The Joint Commission is seeking feedback on proposed requirements and revisions for workplace violence prevention in the Hospital and Critical Access Hospital Accreditation programs
Among the lessons learned during the pandemic, “Opening lines of communication top down and bottom up is vital, with administrators providing regular updates about cases, new protocols
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a more highly transmissible variant of SARS-CoV-2, B.1.1.7, has been detected in 12 U.S. states, putting the country at risk for a rise in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
An analysis of state and federal health data showed Black Americans receiving COVID-19 vaccinations at “dramatically lower” rates than their white counterparts