TONE
The TONE Strategic Planning Committee is honored to present our 2016-2018 Strategic Plans to its members. The key priorities are aligned with the AONE Strategic Plan.

Advance Healthcare Network
The American Academy of Nursing has launched an Institute for Nursing Leadership. The institute houses the academy's work to place more nurses on governing boards, commissions and task forces, with an emphasis on federal and gubernatorial appointments and governing boards of national organizations aligned with the academy's strategic plan.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
Understanding the factors that influence whether Millennials embrace or reject moving into nursing leadership is crucial.

Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC, Nurse.com
Every profession has members who rise into leadership, and effective leaders can make all the difference. This cannot be more true of healthcare and nursing, arenas that necessitate highly collaborative teams.

Jennifer Thew, RN, HealthLeaders Media
The use of interim nurse leaders is common, but information on how-to help them transition to their roles is not. Mayo Clinic's nurse administrator Dale Pfrimmer shares advice on how to support interim leaders.

Keith Carlson, BSN, RN, NC-BC, Nurse.com
Nurse leaders are crucial to the health of any unit, agency or facility, and we’ve all likely heard or experienced horror stories of nurse managers from Hades.

Nicola Merrifield, NursingTimes.net
Nurse leaders say they support the creation of a senior care assistant role to bridge the gap between support staff and registered nurses, insisting the move would not "dumb down" the profession.

Annette M. Boyle, Fierce Healthcare
Hospitals, health systems and physician practices invested a lot of time and money preparing for the switch from the ICD-9 coding set to ICD-10, and after numerous delays by the federal government, the industry officially moved over to the new code set Oct. 1.

Jonathan Bilyk, Nurse.com
As a nurse working in the cardiac care ICU at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago for 12 years, Stephanie Seburn, BSN, RN, CCRN, won’t say she ran across morally distressing dilemmas every day. But they definitely were part of her nursing practice often enough, and continue to hold her attention years later.

Julie Bird, Fierce Healthcare
The first steps to delivering consumer-centric healthcare involve reducing wait times, improving the customer experience and giving patients more options in how they receive care, according to a Physician's Money Digest article.

Julie Bird, Fierce Healthcare
Both nurses and pharmacists can play key roles in consulting with patients and their families about palliative care and then managing that care, two new studies show.

Texas Public Radio
Palliative care nurse Theresa Brown is healthy, and so are her loved ones, and yet, she feels keenly connected to death. "I have a deep awareness after working in oncology that fortunes can change on a dime," she tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. "Enjoy the good when you have it, because that really is a blessing."

Maggie Fox, NBC News
Ordinary staph infections are just as likely to kill newborn babies as infections caused by a superbug, researchers reported.

View the presentation for the second edition of TONE WebinaRx, "My Tilting Nursing Policy Cap: 84th Legislative Session and Regulatory Update" presented by Elizabeth N. Sjoberg, Associate General Counsel for the Texas Hospital Association, via the link below.

Monday, November 2, 2015, 3:30 p.m.

Jenny Deam, Houston Chronicle
For the second year in a row Texas has received an F rating for failing to implement laws that would mandate price transparency in healthcare, a new report has found.

Lisa Schencker, Modern Healthcare
Texas, Louisiana and Kansas filed a lawsuit against the federal government accusing it of forcing states to pay an unconstitutional tax to help fund the Affordable Care Act.

Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare
Last March, a nursing assistant noticed a large pressure ulcer on the backside of a patient needing intensive care at the Hazard (Ky.) ARH Regional Medical Center. It was about 10 days after the patient had been admitted for leg ulcers and complications related to diabetes and renal disease.

Danielle Abril, Dallas Business Journal
North Texas health systems are aiming to leverage technology to enhance their capabilities.

Carrie Feibel, Houston Public Media
The CDC has designated 55 hospitals nationwide as future "Ebola treatment centers." Two of them are in Texas: UTMB in Galveston and Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH) in Houston. TCH has built an entirely new unit, an 8-bed biocontainment wing at its facility in Katy.

Alexandra Wilson Pecci, HealthLeaders Media
Applying a one-size-fits all approach to patient satisfaction is a sure-fire way to fail, experts say.

Jayne O'Donnell, USA TODAY
About 70% of those who return to the federal insurance exchange when open enrollment starts Nov. 1 will pay less than $75 a month after they receive tax credits, a government analysis shows.