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The American Hospital Association (AHA) will host a webinar on Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. ET to help established team leaders across the care continuum use evidence-based teamwork tools to engage patients and family member as champions of safety.
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 Nurses on Boards Coalition (NOBC) is urging nurses who serve on boards to take 5 minutes and register their service on the NOBC website.
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…
Leveraging peer support and employee assistance programs to assist distressed colleagues and celebrating victories to spotlight the positive impact of nurses’ work are among the best practices nurse leaders are using to address the mental and emotional trauma experienced by hospital staff during…
Adequate staffing, sufficient protective equipment, more emotional support and a request administrators spend time shadowing nurses are among the local solutions proposed by nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A July survey of 1,824 nurse leaders from AONL and Joslin Marketing identified the lack of a playbook, shortage of personal protective equipment and supplies, ever-changing information, changes in culture dynamics and financial impact as the top challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.