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A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant decrease in the number of opioids prescribed to adults upon discharge from emergency departments in recent years. CDC researchers reviewed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for 2006…
The Joint Commission seeks comment by Feb. 3 on two proposed requirements related to medication management. The first defines the minimum required elements of a complete medication order as “the medication name, medication dose, medication route and medication frequency.” The second makes changes…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released performance data this week for the Quality Payment Program (QPP), which is intended to incentivize cost-effective care.
How Americans pay for care and how providers are reimbursed is the subject of this month’s issue of Health Affairs. The issue includes the first systematic review of three bundled payment programs established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2009.
The American Journal of Nursing’s list of stories to watch in 2020 runs the gamut—from disease specific topics such as Ebola (promising treatments are in development) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), which caused an unusually high number of deaths in 2019, to workplace issues such as the…
In an interview with AHA Today, AONL member Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, chief nurse executive at Allegheny Health Network and an American Hospital Association (AHA) board member, urged health care leaders to recognize human trafficking exists in their communities and take action to provide person-…
In a recent commentary, Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and Albert Wu, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, discuss how lessons learned from the patient safety movement can be used to help address clinician burnout, a NAM…
Last month, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) held the sixth in a series of meetings hosted by the NAM Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience. Materials from that meeting are now online at the event’s landing page.
This week, HCA Healthcare, based in Nashville, Tenn., announced its purchase of a majority stake in Galen College of Nursing. The college, which was established in 1989 to prepare nurses for the Humana hospital system during a nursing shortage, will allow HCA Healthcare to better serve the…
Thanks to AONL members and other donors who supported the AONL Foundation for Nursing Leadership Research and Education through the Pamela Austin Thompson Fellowship Fund, two nurses will receive financial aid allowing them to participate in the 2020 AONL Nurse Manager Fellowship program. The AONL…