Nurses
On this Advancing Health podcast, Michelle Davis, assistant vice president of medical services at Unity Health, in Searcy, Ark., discusses how a shared governance model promotes partnerships and collaboration between nurses and other health care professionals, and gives bedside caregivers a voice鈥
AHA member hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting the health care workforce. We support lifting the cap on Medicare-funded physician residencies; boosting support for nursing schools and faculty; providing scholarships and loan forgiveness; and, expediting visas for all highly鈥
Hospitals and health systems are facing one of the most unique times that the field has ever experienced. They are still managing through the ebbs and flows of the COVID pandemic while developing new strategies and initiatives to assist in their recovery and rebuilding efforts.
Nearly 200 House members are urging White House COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients to investigate reports that nurse staffing agencies are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to increase their profits at the expense of patients and the hospitals that treat them.
Learn how Atrium Health and Yale New Haven Hospital redesigned staffing structures due to COVID-19, and the impact it has on patient outcomes and experience, and ultimately cost.
Please contact your representatives today and urge them to sign on to a 鈥淒ear Colleague鈥 letter circulating in the House.
In this podcast presented by the AHA Living Learning Network and American Organization for Nursing Leadership, Advocate Aurora Health Chief Nursing Officer Mary Beth Kingston, a member of the AHA Board of Trustees, and nurse leader Patricia Quinn, director of maternal child health at Northwell鈥
The fourth and current wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has created a worrisome landscape for the nursing profession. Nurses across the country report that they no longer feel celebrated as heroes as they did in the early days of the pandemic.
Patient-to-nurse staffing ratios are a static and ineffective tool that cannot guarantee a safe heath care environment, writes Mary Ann Fuchs, president of AHA鈥檚 American Organization for Nursing Leadership affiliate, responding to a recent op-ed in the New York Times.
The essay Nurses Deserve Better. So Do Their Patients is right to note the 鈥渁wesome鈥 impact that nurses have within our health care system and in the battle against Covid-19.