COVID-19: Organizational Preparedness and Capacity Planning

To avert a “Category 5” nursing shortage, hospitals, nurses, thought leaders and policymakers
The average cost of turnover for a bedside RN is $40,038 and ranges from $28,400 to $51,700, according to a recent study by NSI Nursing Solutions.
Leaders from Kaiser Permanente’s National Program Office will share their experience using an eight-step process to support high reliability principles across a multi-level
Almost 30% of RNs are at risk of leaving their current employers, according to a recent study by Press Ganey.
When confronted with a staffing crisis earlier this year, AONL member Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, got creative. The chief nursing officer at Allegheny Health Network
At least six states are using federal resources to boost hospital staffing amid the latest COVID-19 wave. Alabama is using $12.3 million in CARES Act funding to hire
Patients enter acute care facilities through many different portals: emergency rooms, direct admissions from physician offices, surgery suites, transfers from other hospitals and ambulatory call centers.
A study published this week in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) shows that after years of steady