Improving outpatient safety will require both structural reform of office practice functions as well as engagement of patients in their own safety. While EHRs hold great promise for reducing medication errors and tracking test results, these systems have yet to reach their full potential.

EMS: A Critical Partner in Successful Community Disaster Planning and Response - Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel serve on the front lines of health, providing lifesaving services not only during everyday emergencies but also during a wide range of natural and man-made disasters.

On Tuesday, May 22, 2018, starting at 10 am ET, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee will host a hearing on the Health Care Workforce: Addressing Shortages and Improving Care. They will discuss the Title VII and Title VIII reauthorizations bills under consideration. Watch the hearing live on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, starting at 10 am ET!

The 1999 Institute of Medicine To Err Is Human report drew national attention to the problem of preventable harm in medicine and led to the creation of the modern patient safety field. Measuring patient safety is a complex and evolving field, and achieving accurate and reliable measurement strategies remains a challenge for the safety field.

AMSN.org Commentary on a Severe Nursing Shortage - The hot-button topic of the nursing shortage took center stage on April 30 when CNN published an article by Parija Kavilanz, “Nursing Schools Are Rejecting Thousands of Applicants – In the Middle of a Nursing Shortage.” Sadly, the CNN article is true...

AAACN member Charlotte W. Hogan BSN RN CMSRN is getting her game on and looking forward to her first AAACN Conference!

How Does Stress Affect the Body? It's a fair question for any of us to ask. Even daily hassles can hurt your health! The answer: Multiple ways, ranging from chronic headaches to joint pain to psoriasis. Our author has advice to help you avoid "sweating the small stuff."

Join us in congratulating Christine Griffel, winner of the 2017 CCCTM Grant. Christine recently passed the CCCTM exam (Certified in Care Coordination and Transition Management®), administered by MSNCB.

A school nurse whose life has been touched by, not one, but two mass shootings discusses her path to becoming a school nurse activist in the article, "Why I Became a School Nurse Activist," by Robin Cogan.

Not only do the qualifications of the current nursing workforce need to be updated, the Health Resources and Services Administration projects that we’ll need more than 1 million new RNs by 2020. The good news is that nursing program applicants, enrollments and graduates have increased. The bad news is...