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The Nursing Community Coalition released a statement honoring former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, who died last week.
In a letter sent this week to Congressional leadership and to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees, the Nursing Community Coalition urges Congress to fully fund critical nursing programs.
The top three challenges facing nurse leaders are staff recruitment and retention, financial resource availability and workplace violence, according to AONL Foundation’s 2024 Longitudinal Nurse Leadership Insight Study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will implement a 10-year payment and delivery model to improve maternal health care.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently urged nursing home residents to become vaccinated, following the release of research showing only 33% of residents were up to date with their COVID-19 vaccination.
Positive psychology exercises can improve health care workers’ mental health, according to Bryan Sexton, PhD, director of the Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science.
Occupational safety officials are urging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention not to take its committee’s advice on infection control guidelines in health care settings, warning front-line workers may be at risk.
Part-time certified nursing assistants who were scheduled for more hours and more consistently with the same co-workers were less likely to quit working at their long-term care facilities, a study found.
Health care organizations should invest in building the capacity of nurse leaders to implement evidence-based practice, according to a study in the January Journal of Nursing Administration.
CNOs should use their influence to implement strategies to encourage more people to become nurses, says AONL member Lisa Dolan, MSN, RN