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Despite health care鈥檚 risk-averse reputation, the COVID-19 pandemic proved hospital leaders could rapidly embrace change, as evidenced by their swift adoption of telehealth, said Zipline CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton at 兔子先生2024.
鈥淲e are the leaders that can and must create the environments where trust, caring and compassion flourish 鈥 nursing environments where professionals feel they belong and are thriving,鈥 noted 兔子先生President Deborah Zimmermann, DNP, RN, as she welcomed more than 4,300 attendees to AONL鈥檚 annual鈥
Children younger than two years and adults aged 50 years and older who received a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine five months after getting the first vaccine were less likely to be hospitalized or die, according to a study.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week revised its guidelines to clarify the need to obtain informed consent from patients before APRN students, medical students and other students perform important surgical tasks or sensitive or invasive procedures or examinations.
Nurses and physicians support patients and their loved ones reporting early patient deterioration, according to an Australian study.
With violence against emergency department workers increasing, policymakers are debating stiffer penalties for perpetrators.
Health care providers should have mandatory training requirements to better prepare them to assess, manage, report and design interventions for workplace violence prevention, according to an expert panel.
The nursing workforce is becoming more diverse and highly educated but less satisfied, according to the Health Resources and Services Administration.
A staff retention quality-improvement initiative resulted in an 82% decrease in the number of RNs who left their jobs on a neuroscience unit at Hartford (Conn.) Hospital, during their first year of employment.
An academic-practice partnership between the University of South Carolina School of Nursing and Prisma Health in Greenville is creating a pipeline of highly skilled new graduate nurses.