/ en Thu, 10 Apr 2025 05:13:13 -0500 Thu, 16 Sep 21 13:42:50 -0500 Thu, 16 Sep 2021 13:42:50 -0500 Toolkits/Methodology <p>The role of the nurse executive in patient safety is to help lead best practices and establish the right culture across multiple disciplines within the organization.</p> <p>The nurse leader must have the competencies necessary to design, coordinate and move forward patient safety principles and practices across the domains of governance, practice/patient care, education and research.</p> <p>This can only be accomplished in collaboration with the interdisciplinary team of health care academia, solution providers, policy makers and the community.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 21:15:09 -0500 Toolkits/Methodology <p>This toolkit has been designed with the Nurse Executive in mind and will serve as a valuable resource for all phases of technology acquisition.</p> <p>Based upon the Guiding Principles, this "must have" online resource guides the Nurse Executive through acquisition, implementation, key learning's, meaningful use, health care IT investment, disaster management, point of care considerations, contingency planning, and nurse informatics credentialing.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 19:48:51 -0500 Toolkits/Methodology /building-community-health-worker-program <p>The American Hospital Association and the National Urban League, along with CommunityHealth Works, formed a strategic advisory group that worked together to apply findings from the consortium to the Building A Community Health Worker Program: The Key to Better Care, Better Outcomes, & Lower Costs toolkit. This resource is intended to help administrative and clinical leaders implement successful and sustainable community health worker programs.</p> <p>This Community Health Worker toolkit will cover what Community Health Worker programs are and what is suggested to implement a program on your own as well as the benefits to your organization, your patients and your community.</p> Tue, 23 Apr 2019 13:30:58 -0500 Toolkits/Methodology /initiatives/workplace-violence <p>Workplace violence is an increasingly recognized safety issue in the health care community. The <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/" target="_blank">National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health</a> defines workplace violence as any physical assault, threatening behavior or verbal abuse occurring in the workplace.</p><p>AONL is committed to providing nurse leaders with tools to prevent workplace violence and ensure the safety of health care workers and patients.</p> Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500 Toolkits/Methodology