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AHA Leadership Rounds with Allegheny Health Network leader
Claire Zangerle, R.N., chief nurse executive at Allegheny Health Network, today joined AHA Board Chair Melinda Estes, M.D., to discuss how hospitals can support their workforce as they move from relief, recovery, and rebuilding to reimagining and innovation.
FDA updates EUA for convalescent plasma, guidance on preventing medical device shortages
The FDA this week revised and reissued its August emergency use authorization for COVID-19 convalescent plasma to treat hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The revised EUA adds the Mount Sinai COVID-19 ELISA IgG Antibody Test as an acceptable test for qualifying high and low titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma.
AHA releases brief on creating value with hospital-at-home care
AHA’s The Value Initiative is providing new resources to support hospitals’ and health systems’ efforts to adopt hospital-at-home care for patients who need acute-level care but are considered stable enough to be safely monitored from their homes.
COVID crisis prompts calls for integration of palliative and critical care
With COVID-19 increasing patients’ pain and morbidity and exacerbating high levels of clinician burnout and moral distress, integrating palliative and critical care “has never been more crucial,” according to the authors of an article in December’s Critical Care Nurse.
CMS launches hospital-at-home program to increase capacity
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched its Acute Hospital Care at Home program in November to increase the capacity of the health care system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Webinar explains how to engage patients, families as safety champions
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will host a webinar on Dec. 9 at 1 p.m. ET to help established team leaders across the care continuum use evidence-based teamwork tools to engage patients and family member as champions of safety.
Nurse staffing shortages hit hospitals nationwide
Asking asymptomatic COVID-exposed staff to work and using 36-hour shifts are among the strategies hospitals have employed to cope with severe nurse staffing shortages during the current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Front-line nurses propose solutions for future crisis response
Adequate staffing, sufficient protective equipment, more emotional support and a request administrators spend time shadowing nurses are among the local solutions proposed by nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.
AONL Survey Identifies Top Challenges During Pandemic
A July survey of 1,824 nurse leaders from AONL and Joslin Marketing identified the lack of a playbook, shortage of personal protective equipment and supplies, ever-changing information, changes in culture dynamics and financial impact as the top challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Is your facility coronavirus vaccine ready?
Establishing a multidisciplinary vaccine workgroup can help to ensure health care facilities are ready