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AONL released a call for abstracts for the 2024 AONL Professional Governance Leadership Conference on June 27-28, 2024 in Chicago.
With nurses lobbying state legislators to adopt mandated staffing ratios to address the nursing shortage, Rose Sherman, EdD, RN, Nurse Leader editor-in-chief, explains their drawbacks in the October issue.
The American Hospital Association last week launched a Suicide Prevention Guide in Action webpage.
The American Hospital Association and its physician alliance offer an infographic to guide hospital and health system leaders in prioritizing and supporting a robust succession-planning program for their organizations.
In an American Hospital Association podcast, leaders at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore explain how its Blue Dot Human Trafficking Initiative flags potential victims of human trafficking for its team of 30 forensic nurses who serve greater Baltimore.
Hand hygiene compliance improved by 15% across all rooms and 17% in patient rooms when health workers received automated individualized feedback, according to a study.
The American Medical Association is awarding $100,000 in grants to five universities to improve standardized blood pressure instruction.
Emergency room triage nurses correctly selected the cognitively unbiased triage response only 51% of the time in a scenario describing a patient at the highest severity index level, according to a study.
The University of Connecticut in Mansfield is launching a Nursing and Engineering Innovation Center to combine nurses’ problem-solving, innovative nature with engineers’ technological expertise.
Nurse leaders who exhibit a growth mindset, emotional intelligence and innovation create workplaces where nurses want to stay, according to AONL member Sara Groff, MSN, RN, senior nursing director for oncology and surgical services at MedStar Health in Columbia, Md.