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

As health care providers need more nurses to care for patients during surges in COVID-19 cases, some nursing boards have taken steps to facilitate reentry into the workforce for nurses whose licenses have lapsed.
In an April 28 letter to Congressional leaders, the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) thanked Congress for including top NCC priorities in the CARES Act
Participants in the AONL Nurse Manager Fellowship program must complete capstone projects to benefit their sponsoring organizations. Two such projects are detailed in the April issue of Nurse Leader.
Eight recommendations for optimizing infection control and operating room management stand on a substantial body of empirical evidence characterizing the epidemiology of perioperative transmission and infection development, according to the authors of a recent paper.
The Coalition for Health Funding, which includes AONL, wrote to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations this month to urge Congress to significantly boost federal investments in health in FY 2021.
A nurse, a physician and a public health professor with experience in disaster response recommend health care organizations implement three strategies to enhance organizational cohesion and reduce adverse effects on employees during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, WHO released the State of the World’s Nursing Report 2020 this month.
People with diabetes appear to be at higher risk of having more severe COVID-19 infections, but researchers have insufficient data to quantify that risk, according to an April 8 evidence review by the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM).
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has a dedicated page highlighting resources related to COVID-19 response and recovery.