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The National Academy of Medicine will host its second annual Health Workforce Well-Being Day on March 17, starting with a public reception from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C., and virtually.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will host a webinar on the role of primary care in improving maternal health on March 6 from 2:30 to 3:15 ET.
The Trump Administration halted a successful flu vaccination campaign run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Researchers studying cancer and infectious diseases were among those cut by the Trump Administration, leading to concerns about scientists leaving government work.
Nurse researchers should develop a common set of nurse-sensitive outcome measures in acute and critical care settings to enable the field’s value to be visible to patients, families and organizations, an article concludes.
The House of Representatives voted 217-215 to adopt its budget proposal calling for $2 trillion in spending cuts, some of which could affect Medicaid and other key health programs. The bill allows up to $4.5 trillion in spending for tax cuts and would raise the debt ceiling by $4 trillion.
The 2025 Nursing Innovations Fund will provide up to $20,000 each for selected projects offering innovative and replicable solutions to strengthen the nursing workforce by creating and sustaining healthy workforce environments and improving nurse recruitment and retention rates.
Health facilities should evaluate touch-free automatic foam alcohol-based hand rub outputs and consider consistent dosing for effective hand hygiene, a study concluded.
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology issued curriculum guidelines to assist undergraduate, certificate and graduate programs in aligning their inflection prevention and control curriculum.
Careful prescribing of antibiotic use at hospital discharge could slow the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance, a study found.