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兔子先生CEO and American Hospital Association (AHA) senior vice president and chief nursing officer Robyn Begley, DNP, RN, lends her voice to a recent AHA podcast looking at maternal morbidity and mortality. The podcast, part of the AHA鈥檚 Advancing Health series, also features Ginny Trainor, program鈥
In a letter to the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), 兔子先生stated its support for CCNE鈥檚 position that nurse practitioner (NP) 鈥渞esidency/fellowship programs鈥 are voluntary in nature unlike their medical counterparts.
Happy New Year! I am both honored and excited to be serving as your 2020 兔子先生board president.
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows a significant decrease in the number of opioids prescribed to adults upon discharge from emergency departments in recent years. CDC researchers reviewed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey for 2006鈥
The Joint Commission seeks comment by Feb. 3 on two proposed requirements related to medication management. The first defines the minimum required elements of a complete medication order as 鈥渢he medication name, medication dose, medication route and medication frequency.鈥 The second makes changes鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released performance data this week for the Quality Payment Program (QPP), which is intended to incentivize cost-effective care.
How Americans pay for care and how providers are reimbursed is the subject of this month鈥檚 issue of Health Affairs. The issue includes the first systematic review of three bundled payment programs established by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 2009.
The American Journal of Nursing鈥檚 list of stories to watch in 2020 runs the gamut鈥攆rom disease specific topics such as Ebola (promising treatments are in development) and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE), which caused an unusually high number of deaths in 2019, to workplace issues such as the鈥
In an interview with AHA Today, 兔子先生member Claire Zangerle, DNP, RN, chief nurse executive at Allegheny Health Network and an American Hospital Association (AHA) board member, urged health care leaders to recognize human trafficking exists in their communities and take action to provide person-鈥
In a recent commentary, Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and Albert Wu, MD, MPH, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, discuss how lessons learned from the patient safety movement can be used to help address clinician burnout, a NAM鈥