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Senate committee leaders introduce chronic care legislation
Leaders of the Senate Finance Committee and its Chronic Care Working Group have introduced bipartisan legislation (S. 3504) to improve care management, coordination and outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions.
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Study: Even light smokers at higher risk of earlier death
People who smoke an average of less than one cigarette per day over their lifetime have a 64 percent higher risk of earlier death than people who never smoked, concludes a study by researchers at the National Cancer Institute and published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.
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TeamSTEPPS webinar to address managing disruptive patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is hosting a free webinar on Dec. 14 on the management and care of aggressive and disruptive patients.
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CDC project reports public health achievements
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a final report on its Winnable Battles project, launched in 2010 to achieve a series of public health targets.
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Emory University’s nursing education revamped
In response to major changes in the way nurses do their jobs, and national calls for a revamp of nursing education, Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing turned its MSN and BSN programs “upside down,” explains an article published by Emory.
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NCSBN board upholds current passing standard for nurse exam
The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)’s board of directors has voted to uphold the current passing standard for the NCLEX-PN Examination (the National Council Licensure Examination for Practical Nurses).
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Insights from Israel: Observations from the AONE Delegation Journey
A year ago when I selected Israel as AONE’s academic trip abroad, I had no idea what to expect, nor that my role at AONE at the time would be changing from president to CEO. By selecting Israel, I hoped the AONE delegation, led by AONE Board President Joan Shinkus Clark, could return with knowledge of several areas critical for US nurse leaders.
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AHA report offers strategies to ensure access to care in vulnerable communities
The American Hospital Association (AHA) released a report offering hospital leaders nine innovative ways to preserve access to essential health services in vulnerable rural and urban communities.
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CDC issues draft guidelines for dressings to prevent catheter-related infections
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accepting comments on a proposed update to its 2011 recommendations for the use of chlorhexidine-impregnated dressings to prevent intravascular catheter-related infections.
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Consumer Reports finds central line infection rates down
Consumer Reports has analyzed federal data on central line infections for about 2,000 hospitals across the country from between 2011 and 2015, finding improvement in many hospitals that support other analysis (from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) showing that central line infections were cut in half between 2008 and 2014.
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HIMSS survey seeks nurse informaticist data
The Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) is launching its annual survey of the nursing informatics community to gain an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of the informatics nurse professional.
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Successful integration of nurse practitioners into ICU explored
The December issue of Critical Care Nurse describes the strategic planning that went into integrating nurse practitioners into 10 intensive care units at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore.
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Webinar to focus on strategies for health equity, diversity
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative and Institute for Diversity in Health Management will host a free webinar Dec. 5 at 2 p.m. ET highlighting strategies that hospitals and health systems can implement to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion.
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AHA to host influenza vaccination twitter chat
The American Hospital Association’s (AHA) United Against the Flu Campaign will host a Twitter chat Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 12 pm ET as part of National Influenza Vaccination Week. F
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AHA webinar examines strategies to prevent workplace violence
The American Hospital Association (AHA) will host the next webinar in its Hospitals Against Violence educational series on Dec. 15 at 2 p.m. ET featuring leaders from Ashville, N.C.-based Mission Health.
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CMS proposal on nursing home recommendations has uncertain future
A rule change being considered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that would require hospitals to provide quality information along with nursing home referrals faces an uncertain future with a new administration, National Public Radio (NPR) reports.
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Safe working environment tied to better patient outcomes: Press Ganey
Maintaining a safe work environment improves nurse surveillance capacity and is associated with better outcomes on satisfaction and safety, according to a Press Ganey report described in HealthLeaders.
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Study explores reasons why female nurses earn less than male nurses
Following up on their research documenting a mean annual salary difference of about $10,000 between male and female nurses, a group of researchers published a paper in Nursing Economics exploring the reasons for the discrepancy.
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Study identifies factors that make nursing homes good at end-of-life care
Researchers at Yale University interviewed administrators and caregivers at eight Connecticut nursing homes with the highest and lowest hospitalization rates to determine what factors made them more likely to send patients at the end of life to the hospital, a practice that is seen as offering little hope for improving quality of life or changing outcomes.
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Thompson, Chow honored with first EFIHL awards
AONE CEO Emeritus Pam Thompson, MS, RN, CENP, FAAN, and AONE member Marilyn Chow, RN, PhD, FAAN, are the inaugural winners of two new awards established by the Executive Fellowship in Innovative Health Leadership (EFIHL).