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RWJBarnabas Health, based in West Orange, N.J., is improving patient access to substance abuse disorder (SUD) recovery services. “We were seeing more and more patients in our emergency departments with overdoses," says AONL member Nancy Holecek, MHA, RN, senior vice president and chief nursing…
Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego has taken several steps to protect employees. The hospital is identifying and flagging patients believed to be prone to violent behavior, and employing a rapid response team trained in defusing potentially violent situations. De-escalation training for staff…
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) has updated its request to Congress to ensure Title VIII Nursing Workforce Development Programs receive the full amount of funding appropriated for their use. The letter flags language in a fiscal 2019 appropriations bill, which resulted in the U.S. Secretary…
Hospital and health system interventions in Oregon and Pennsylvania are achieving positive outcomes in eliminating maternal mortality and reducing morbidity related to childbirth, two goals of the American Hospital Association (AHA). AONL CEO and AHA senior vice president/chief nursing officer…
This year, the AONL Foundation adopted a new mission, vision and strategic plan. It also began a new financial aid program and awarded multiple research grants. These were made possible by support from AONL members and friends who gave more than $100,000 in 2019. There's still time to give to the…
Use of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) telehealth services is on the rise, the department announced last month.
Researchers estimate eliminating scope-of-practice (SOP) restrictions on nurse practitioners (NPs) could produce total annual Medicare cost savings of $44.5 billion in 2013 dollars. The study, which appeared in the November/December issue of Nursing Economic$, employed a multivariate regression…
Results of a recent study showed the introduction of a visual aid into an electronic health record order entry system reduced unintentional duplicate orders for lab and radiology tests by 49% and 40% respectively. The study, which included nearly 184,700 patients, took place in the Beth Israel…
The American Nurses Association (ANA) this week released 13 updated policy statements on the prevention and care for HIV and related conditions. “Our nation cannot solve this epidemic without nurses,” said ANA President Ernest Grant, PhD, RN.
The landmark Institute of Medicine report To Err is Human spurred two decades of system-level approaches to improving the quality and safety of U.S. health care.