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A first of its kind emergency, trauma and transport nursing workforce study provides a detailed look at an essential workforce.
A systematic review of the nursing and biomedical literature on the use of psychiatric rapid response teams (RRTs) in non-psychiatric hospital settings found th
In written testimony, the Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) asked Congress to continue investing in nursing education and research by allocating $266 million for Title VIII nursing workforce programs.
The federal Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force has released its final report on pain management best practices. The report, which was prepared in response to the opioid epidemic, emphasizes safe opioid stewardship and looks at a wide range of pain treatment methods in…
In her June editorial for the Journal of Nursing Administration (JONA), ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúCEO Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, describes how ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas evolved to meet the needs of its members. Since 1967, when the organization was first formed as a society for hospital nurse administrators, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhas progressively…
Hospitals and health systems are standing together June 7 by taking part in a national awareness campaign, #HAVhope Friday. Led by ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú (AHA), the digital media campaign is one facet of AHA’s Hospitals Against Violence initiative.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúPresident Mary Beth Kingston, PhD, RN, spoke June 7 at the first of three regional forums being held to gather input for a forthcoming report from the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) on the Future of Nursing 2020-2030. Kingston discussed ways that nurses are instrumental in helping to…
Nurse researchers and other infection preventionists surveyed a national network of corporate-level infection prevention (IP) directors at integrated delivery networks to get a better sense of how the role is evolving. The responses revealed variation and commonalities in IP director…
In an interview with the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS), Sandra Bloom, MD, associate professor of health management and policy at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health,
A coalition of 20-plus national organizations representing provider, patient advocacy, addiction and health care advocacy organizations has launched a new effort