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Web Roundup: Changing Specialties, Measuring Quality, Caring and Freeloading,...
by Ramon Peco/via Flickr Here are a few things worth noting on the Web today. At Code Blog, “Rookie Mistake” is illuminating on the subject of switching nursing specialties. Here’s a short excerpt: My...
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Practically a Nurse: Life as a New Graduate RN
By Medora McGinnis, RN, whose last post for this blog was “Don’t Cling to Tradition: A Nursing Student’s Call for Realism, Respect.” Medora is now a pediatric RN at St. Mary’s Hospital in the Bon...
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AJN’s October Issue: Breast Cancer, Celiac Disease, the Fall Elections, More
AJN’s October issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss, including two continuing education (CE) articles, which you can access for free. All women who inherit a...
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‘No One Ever Put the Puzzle Pieces Together’: A Nurse’s Guide to Celiac Disease
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Wheat spikes by Dag Endresen, via Flickr If you’ve thought that celiac disease is just another disease-of-the-moment that few people actually have, this month’s CE by...
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In Sandy’s Wake, Emerging Nurse Stories and Some Resources for Now and Next Time
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Whether the National Weather Service officially categorized Sandy as a tropical cyclone or a hurricane, the damage it caused was unprecedented as...
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Depression in Older Adults: A Nurse’s Guide
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor ‘Mourning Old Man’ by Vincent Van Gogh “It is a misconception that depression is a normal, inevitable part of aging; it is not,” writes author Cynthia Cahoon in this...
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AJN’s December Issue: Staffing Issues, Wandering in Dementia, Type 2 Diabetes...
AJN’s December issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss, including two continuing education (CE) articles, which you can access for free. Data from the Military...
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A Crucial Distinction: Missing Incidents vs. Wandering in People With Dementia
At every stage of dementia, people with the condition are at risk for both missing incidents, in which they are unattended and unable to navigate a safe return to their caregiver, and “wandering,” a...
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Nurse Staffing Matters at the Shift Level—Evidence-Based Scenarios Illustrate...
We know that staffing matters. Studies have shown that hospitals with lower proportions of RNs have higher rates of death overall, death following complications (that is, failure to rescue), and other...
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AJN’s January Issue: Men in Nursing, Perioperative Medication Withholding in...
AJN’s January issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss, including two continuing education (CE) articles, which you can access for free. Even though more men are...
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Original Research: Perioperative Medication Withholding in Patients With...
1888 drawing of face of a Parkinson’s patient revealing “characteristic symptoms: mainly hypomimia, a expression-less mask-like face.” Appeared in Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpétrière [Tome 1] :...
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What’s So Hard to Understand: Patient Safety, Quality Care Linked to Nurse...
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief The data linking nurse staffing as well as shift length with patient outcomes and satisfaction with care continue to roll in. The latest report on nurse...
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How Perioperative Medication Withholding Affects Patients with Parkinson’s...
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor The timing of antiparkinson medications has profound implications for motor and cognitive function.… If perioperative surgical staff aren’t sufficiently aware of the...
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AJN’s March Issue: CVD Prevention in Women, Hand Hygiene, Sexuality in...
AJN’s March issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss. Recent surveys show that women continue to underestimate their true risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)....
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Gel and a Poster: A Hand Hygiene Campaign Gets Tested in Two Outpatient Clinics
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Hand by sochacki.info, via Flickr The trouble with hands is that they get into everything, and rapidly move between mouths, noses, eyes, and other people’s hands. So...
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Does Telephone Follow-up After Myocardial Revascularization Help?
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Cellphone macro by Cubosh, via Flickr Myocardial revascularization, an established treatment for coronary heart disease, is currently done via either percutaneous...
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What’s Enough? Why It’s Essential for Nurses to Assess Adolescent Sleep
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Illustration © Anne Horst / http://www.i2iart.com In her poem “Sleep in the Mohave Desert,” Sylvia Plath wrote about not sleeping, feeling comfortless, tormented by...
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How Military Service Affects Veterans’ Health: What All Nurses Need to Know
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Photo (c) Associated Press “The war tried to kill us in the spring,” says John Bartle, the narrator of The Yellow Birds, Kevin Powers’s acclaimed novel about two U.S....
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Revamping CE
By Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN interim editor-in-chief I finally got to the bottom of my inbox. There I found a transcript of a Webcast I had listened to back in December. I had forgotten about it and...
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AJN’s October Issue: Breast Cancer, Celiac Disease, the Fall Elections, More
AJN’s October issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss, including two continuing education (CE) articles, which you can access for free. All women who inherit a...
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