July Issue: Implicit Bias in Nursing, Grief Support for Hospital Staff, Understanding Malpractice, More
“Get to know patients’ former selves. Ask different questions. Discover their answers. I am so glad I did.” —Jennifer Chicca, author of the July Reflections column, “What Joanna Would Have Wanted”
The July issue of AJN is now live. Here are some highlights.
CE: Original Research: Helping Health Care Providers and Staff Process Grief Through a Hospital-Based Program
This study investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of offering an intensive bereavement support program—aimed at addressing grief and loss related to both professional and personal experiences—to hospital employees in a large health system.
CE: Addressing Implicit Bias in Nursing: A Review
This article describes the ways that implicit, or unconscious, bias among health care providers can contribute to health care disparities, and offers strategies nurses can use to discover and overcome their own implicit biases.
Special Feature: Rising to the Challenge: Re-Embracing the Wald Model of Nursing
The author discusses how Lillian Wald’s model of health care, in which nurses work at the intersection of medicine and society, may be useful today as nurses seek to address diseases of despair and improve health equity.
Transition to Practice: Surviving Your First Code
This article prepares new nurses for their first code, describes what happens during a code, and reviews the responsibilities of the resuscitation team.