Recommended Reading from AJN’s November Issue: Using AI in Scholarly Writing, and More

The November issue of AJN is now live.

In its new fifth edition, published earlier this year, the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based Practice (JHEBP) model streamlines its approach, addressing common barriers to EBP implementation and prioritizing simplicity, efficiency, and adaptability. The JHEBP team introduces the latest changes to the model, including rationales for the changes and implications for clinicians, students, and faculty, in a five-part series in this issue.

Despite the growing burden of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, it remains difficult to diagnose and manage effectively. This month’s CE article, “Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction,” provides an overview of  pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

“Too often, people with disabilities have been left out of health equity efforts. Nurses are in a powerful position to change that,” writes Jae Chul Lee in his Focus on DEI column, “No Longer Optional: Addressing Disability Disparities in Nursing Practice.” See here for actionable steps nurses can take when providing care.

“Using Artificial Intelligence for Scholarly Writing” outlines recent research findings on the use of generative AI tools to support scholarly writing and provides guidelines for nurse authors on the appropriate use of AI in the preparation of manuscripts. (Open access)

This month’s Original Research articles include:

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Advancing the Primary Health Care Mandate for Nursing: Recommended Reading from AJN’s July Issue

The July issue of AJN is now live.

To what degree are nurses familiar with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and their relevance to nursing practice? Read this month’s Original Research article, “Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding the Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Study,” to find out. (A mural depicting Goal 6,  clean water and sanitation, is featured on the cover.)

In “Reducing Lung Injury from Blind Insertion of Small-Bore Feeding Tubes,” the authors describe a quality improvement project involving the implementation of capnography-guided small-bore feeding tube placement to reduce complications and the incidence of lung perforation in adult patients. (CE credit is available.)

The July issue also includes new installments in several series:

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Nurses’ Duty to Care: Recommended Reading in AJN’s May Issue

The May issue of AJN is now live.

“If nurses are expected to have a strong sense of duty to care and to report to work even in disaster situations, then it’s essential to understand what factors influence that sense, in order to foster and sustain a workforce ready to do so,” write the authors of this month’s Original Research article, “Exploring U.S. Nurses’ Perceived Duty to Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Read the study here.

The Mountain Model for Evidence-Based Practice Quality Improvement Initiatives” introduces a conceptual model that merges evidence-based practice and quality improvement principles into a unified framework with the goal of disseminating and sustaining EBPQI projects across health care. (CE credit available)

Clinical Inquiry and Problem Identification,” the second article in our new Evidence-Based Decision-Making series, discusses optimizing clinical inquiry, using data to describe a clinical problem, and strategically developing a focused clinical question. A commentary on navigating clinical questions accompanies the article.

Improving Medication Management for Inpatients with a Secondary Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease” describes how a nurse-led multidisciplinary team implemented a quality improvement project to identify patients with Parkinson disease and customize medication management in order […]

2024-04-29T10:19:38-04:00April 29th, 2024|Nursing|0 Comments

Nurses’ Experiences on Staffing Committees: Recommended Reading in AJN’s February Issue

The February issue of AJN is now live.

“Original Research: A Real ‘Voice’ or ‘Lip Service’? Experiences of Staff Nurses Who Have Served on Staffing Committees,” explores nurses’ perspectives on staffing committee participation—including how they perceive their committee’s effectiveness, and how these committees can benefit patients, nurses, and organizations.

In this month’s CE article, “Our Journey to Pass a Surgical Plume Evacuation Law,” the authors describe their experience leading a grassroots coalition to address surgical plume evacuation in Illinois, and outline strategies nurses can apply to their own advocacy efforts.

New series! “Cultivating an Evidence-Based Decision-Making Mindset,” the first article in a new series on how to teach and facilitate learning about evidence-based practice and quality improvement, offers educators the content and tools needed to prepare nurses to be evidence-based decision-makers.

Read “Improving the Timing of Acute Care Insulin Delivery” to learn about an initiative to reduce both time to insulin delivery and percentage of bedtime insulin doses withheld.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, an editorial on Black nurses’ contributions to health care, a Viewpoint column on empowering NPs to treat […]

2024-01-25T13:11:25-05:00January 25th, 2024|Nursing|0 Comments

Implementation Science: Systematic, Sustainable, Evidence-Based Change

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Reading the article by Russell-Babin and colleagues in the December 2023 issue of AJN made me grateful for all the work that went into developing the nursing implementation science (IS) program at Inova. As a nurse working at this health care system, I’d like to share how I benefited from being in the first cohort of nurses trained and engaged in IS over the last three years.

For the past eight years, I’ve been a clinical coordinator of two different disease-specific programs—first stroke and now sepsis. In these roles, I’ve been engaged in many different quality improvement (QI) projects and have become familiar with the tools and processes used to improve patient care and outcomes.

Towards more comprehensive and systematic evidence-based change.

However, as I was invited to step into the world of IS, I began to realize that a strict QI approach cannot alone bring about all the changes we desire within the complex systems of health care. The fact is that clinicians, […]

2024-01-11T10:06:42-05:00January 11th, 2024|Nursing, nursing roles, Quality improvement|1 Comment
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