COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning

Although Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health in Lebanon, N.H., saw relatively few COVID-19 patients this winter, the disease is driving change as the system resumes services put on hold during the first wave of the pandemic.
In a May 13 letter to the White House, AONL and other members of the Tri-Council for Nursing wrote to express support for Veterans Administration (VA) efforts to encourage facilities to grant full practice authority to certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs) during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mental health experts fear the stress of treating COVID-19 patients will have lasting psychological consequences for health care workers, a group already vulnerable to depression and suicide.
Building on earlier guidance for safely resuming elective surgery, the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and AdvaMed today released additional advice to support the safe reentry of medical device representatives into hospitals and other surgical…
In response to the pandemic, opportunities to learn about timely topics are now widely available at no cost. On May 18, the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing will begin a two-week course for nurses on how to provide high quality care during a time of low resources and high uncertainty.