Elevating the Voice of Nursing Leadership: AONL's Virtual Advocacy Day.

As we began planning for AONL Advocacy Day during the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we expected record attendance at AONL's annual event in Washington, DC. What a great opportunity to raise the profile of nursing and increase legislators' understanding of nursing's impact in advancing health! Registration substantially outpaced all prior years. Then on January 21, 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first United States case of the novel coronavirus that had already taken 6 lives in China,1 changing life in this country as we know it. As this pandemic changed the way we deliver care, it has also changed the way legislators interact with their constituents.

The Nurse Leader Role in Crisis Management.

Leaders from the American Organization of Nurse Executives describe the dynamic state of today's healthcare system related to crisis management. Adaptive leadership, driven by strong values and morality, can guide leaders and organizations through the most difficult times.

The American Organization of Nurse Executives and Emergency Nurses Association Guiding Principles on Mitigating Violence in the Workplace.

Violence in the workplace, including violence toward staff from patients and families as well as lateral violence, has become a serious safety issue for hospitals in the United States. Concerned about this issue, the Emergency Nurses Association and the American Organization of Nurse Executives convened a Day of Dialogue to discuss ways to mitigate violence in the workplace. The result of the discussion was the development of guiding principles and a toolkit to assist nurse leaders in systemically reducing lateral violence and patient and family violence in hospitals.