Publication in AJN Seen as Holy Grail by YouTube Songster
Here’s a YouTube video that’s come to our attention. It’s nice to know our cover could inspire a song. This might be a first!
Next week from London…
AJN editor-in-chief Diana Mason is on vacation at an undisclosed location by the sea this week. Next week she’ll be blogging from a conference in London, where she’s scheduled to speak. (In the meantime, Off the Charts will have plenty of other posts. By the way, a fairly small percentage of our blog readers have taken the poll on nursing and the economy we posted last week. It takes about a second! Or tell us what you’d like a poll to ask, if this one doesn’t speak to your experience.)
RealityRN.com: just right for students and new nurses
I wish there was something like RealityRN.com available back when I was a new nurse. In addition to reading the site’s great articles on career management, participants can post their own stories or questions about nursing and get feedback from one another in a safe, friendly environment. There are also useful videos and humorous postings. (The very good video series on how to deal with preceptors would have helped me back in 1996. I just recommended them to a friend of mine who was fired from her first nursing position due to a conflict with a preceptor.) While the site is geared toward new nurses and students, experienced nurses will find it interesting too and can use it as a venue to mentor novices who are struggling with their new roles.
Christine Moffa, MS, RN, is AJN’s clinical editor. She will be giving periodic updates and recommendations, so check back.
“Nurse Moffa,” AJN’s clinical editor, with pals Rico and Giusepina
“Nurses don’t teach. They educate!” OK, but…. (A style update from the Word Curmudgeon)
I had a few comments but no death threats after my first post, about “nurse writers.” That fact gives me the courage to tackle another grammatical pet peeve of mine. Let me admit, up front, that probably no one else in the world cares about this, and no one else appears to have written about it. This could mean either that I’m really astute or completely wrong.
Education is central to what nurses do. Nurses educate. They work hard, as we do here at AJN, to elevate the image of nursing and nurses in the public eye (as well as the eyes of the medical community, policymakers, and politicians).
It’s understandable, then, that when nurses want to talk or write about something as central to nursing as patient education, they would choose the verb “educate” rather than “teach.”
The Invisible Experts: What Nurses Know About Aging and Chronic Illnesses Like Diabetes
Is it any coincidence that AJN recently heard from editorial board member Michael Desjardins and contributing editor Jane Seley about ways physicians and the mainstream media remain blind to the cutting-edge work being done by nurses in developing new models of care for the elderly and the chronically ill, including those with diabetes? This is a narrative that has to change if our health care system is going to face the challenges coming its way. […]