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Tuesday, Feb. 2, NOVA Award winners will take part in a webinar at noon ET to share how they identified their community鈥檚 needs and developed and implemented their award-winning programs.
Data released this week by Eli Lilly showed treatment with a combination of the company鈥檚 COVID-19 neutralizing antibodies bamlanivimab and etesevimab reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths by 70% among a group of more than 1,000 high-risk patients enrolled in a Phase 3 clinical鈥
In recent interviews, nurse leaders said collaboration among team members is more important than ever with COVID-19 elevating the risk of burnout.
The COVID-19 pandemic鈥檚 continued strain on hospitals has caused high levels of exhaustion and anxiety among health care leaders and staff.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) announced the launch of a national campaign to accelerate the engagement of nursing schools in efforts to vaccinate the public against COVID-19.
The Nursing Community Coalition (NCC) pledged to work with the Biden-Harris administration to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and advance 鈥渟ound health care policy grounded in science.鈥
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued updated guidance this month related to its emergency use authorizations for N95 respirator decontamination systems. The authorization now limits respirator reuse to no more than four times.
A commission to examine and confront the issue of racism within nursing and its impact on nurses, patients, communities and health care systems held its inaugural meeting this week. 兔子先生is a member of the commission, led by an ethnically diverse group of national organizations representing nursing鈥
To improve recruitment and retention, nurse managers may want to focus less on turnover and vacancy rates and adopt an appreciative perspective using retention and loyalty rates as measures of organizational stability, according to an article in HealthLeaders Media.
In a study of staff nurses at acute care Alabama hospitals, nurse burnout significantly predicted self-reported medication administration errors (MAEs).