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Content by and about the American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL).

“Nursing’s contributions to improving the public’s health during times of crisis dates back to the days of [Florence] Nightingale, modern nursing’s founder,”
Given the impracticality of continuously testing people diagnosed with COVID-19 to determine whether they remain infectious, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued guidance this week on a symptom-based strategy for discontinuing isolation of persons with COVID-19.
In its recently updatedreport COVID-19 Models: Forecasting the Pandemic’s Spread, the American Hospital Association (AHA) looked at five COVID-19 forecasting models designed to aid in capacity planning.
President Donald Trump issued a proclamation declaring May 6 National Nurses Day. In addition to noting the ways in which nurses routinely serve patients, the proclamation highlighted their service in times of national crisis.
Nurses are making a “monumental difference for patients, families and communities,” wrote Rick Pollack, president and chief executive officer of the American Hospital Association (AHA), as National Nurses Week 2020 got underway
In so many ways, National Nurses Week 2020 is unlike any other. As we continue fighting a global pandemic, this Nurses Week we also recognize the International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, and the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth.