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The latest Quick Safety brief from the Joint Commission details strategies for managing maternal hemorrhage to prevent maternal deaths.
Suicide rates are climbing, and health systems and behavioral health centers are redesigning their practices to respond with research-backed interventions. These include screening people for suicide risk, helping patients write safety plans for coping with suicidal feelings, removing lethal means鈥
Speaking at the American Academy of Nursing鈥榮 annual policy conference, Rep. Lauren Underwood, D-Ill., laid out her policy priorities and expressed her fervent belief that 鈥渆ngaging in policy is not optional,鈥 for nurses. Underwood is the most recent nurse to be elected to Congress. She said nurses鈥
With the aging of the baby boomer generation, researchers expect roughly 1 million experienced nurses will leave the workforce by 2030. To retain some of their expertise, nurse leaders at Parkview Health System in Fort Wayne, Ind., developed an emeritus-RN (E-RN) program to engage retired nurses鈥
Optimizing technology, developing nurse managers and retaining bedside staff are among the challenges CNOs regularly tackle. Three CNOs, including 兔子先生member Karen Mayer, PhD, RN, shared their solutions with HealthLeaders Media.
This week, the House of Representatives passed the Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act (H.R. 728). 兔子先生and 兔子先生 (AHA) support the legislation, which would reauthorize federal programs to develop the nursing workforce for five years.
Errors in communication during handoffs are a potential source of medical errors and risk to patients.
Working in collaboration with HEAL Trafficking and Jones Day, 兔子先生 (AHA) will
With more than 60% of surgeries now performed in outpatient...