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

A surgical intensive care unit improved clinical alarm management practices and reduced nurses’ self-reported alarm fatigue, a study found.
The National Quality Forum has convened a multi-stakeholder group of health care experts and advocates to pilot projects in health care settings that use social determinants of health data to connect patients with community resources.
An American Hospital Association webinar on April 13 from 1:00-2:00 CT will bring together leading voices from the field for a dialogue on ways health care organizations can adopt best practices to provide equitable maternal care.
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing this week launched its updated licensure examination.
HCA Healthcare, Nashville, Tenn., relies on technology to improve communication, reduce administrative burden and provide skill development for nurses to enable them to spend more time with patients and improve care.
Sixty-two members of the Nursing Community Coalition, including AONL, signed onto written testimony submitted this week to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies.
A participant in the AONL Nurse Manager Fellowship published a study in the April issue of Nurse Leader showing how an interprofessional team effectively decreased central line-associated bloodstream infections in a cardiac care unit at Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
AONL developed its workforce compendium to support nurse leaders by focusing on how to attract, re-engage and help nurse leaders thrive, according to AONL Senior Director of Professional Practice Rhonda Hughes, PhD, RN.
Mandating federal staffing ratios for nursing homes would accelerate the labor shortage across the continuum of care and reduce access to care for older Americans, according to the American Hospital Association and the American Health Care Association.
In Becker’s Hospital Review, AONL CEO Robyn Begley explains the organization’s opposition to mandatory nurse-staffing ratios.