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Nurses need to be at the table to innovate

Nurses speaking at a Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) virtual gathering last week made the case that nurses—the people closest to the problem

White House will spend $9 billion to fight COVID-19 in rural areas

Last Friday, the White House announced it will spend $8.5 billion from the American Rescue Plan to help rural health care providers in the fight against COVID-19.

Nurses will accelerate the transformation of health care

The COVID-19 pandemic “has unlocked new momentum in the delivery of care to patients, with notable advancements powered by nurses,” write Robyn Begley, AONL CEO
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As Delta Variant Spreads, Doctors Deliver Straight Talk on COVID-19 to People Who Are Unvaccinated

Phoebe Putney Health System, based in Albany, Georgia, serves more than 500,000 residents in 41 counties and has been hit hard by the pandemic. Enrique Lopez, M.D., a surgical intensivist at Phoebe Putnam Memorial Hospital who has recently helped out in Phoebe North’s COVID-19 units, gives a blunt account of the summer surge in cases.

Religious Exemptions from COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates: What Is the Chaplain's Role?

[WEBINAR] Chaplains are increasingly being approached to discuss or support applications for exemption from COVID-19 vaccine mandates in healthcare systems and other institutions. This webinar will help chaplains, spiritual care managers, and others to prepare for those conversations. Attendees will hear legal, HR, administrative, and spiritual care perspectives on this critical issue. This webinar seeks not to provide a one-size-fits-all solution to this difficult issue, but instead to help chaplains and others prepare their own responses as appropriate in their own settings.

Growing the Next Generation of Nurses: The Adelante Program

Nursing leaders and schools are being called upon to educate and prepare the next generation of nurses with the skill sets necessary to lead in meeting the distinctive needs of the U. S. population.

AONL COVID-19 Longitudinal Study Finds Top Challenges for Nurse Leaders

Since the initial survey, evidence has emerged indicating access to personal protective equipment (PPE) has improved while the challenge of mental health and staffing have worsened. As stated by one nurse leader: “We have seen nurses leaving the profession due to moral distress, burnout and fatigue. I believe if we can address the root cause of this problem, we will retain more nurses and begin to stabilize the numbers in the workforce.”

AONL, AHA Join NAM Effort to Improve CSC Implementation

AONL and the American Hospital Association (AHA) last week joined with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and other health care organizations in calling for systemwide actions to share clinical and operational lessons learned in the pandemic to better implement crisis standards of care (CSC).

CDC: Masks still required in health care settings

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week emphasized that its new masking recommendations for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 do not apply to health care settings.