AJN’s Top 5 Guest Blog Posts of 2021
One of my roles as a senior editor at AJN is to edit and maintain AJN’s blog. We try to publish a new post two to three times each week.
A percentage of these are original first-person nursing stories and perspectives by nurses in various specialties, from critical care to community health to oncology to school nursing. I often think of these as the lifeblood of the blog, the posts that can really reach people at the feeling level, and I am always grateful to receive them—from regular or first-time authors. These posts can be heartbreaking or gently humorous, or both. The range of styles and voices is wide.
Other equally important posts are those by nurses with an argument to make about an urgent issue in practice or policy. Some of these give rise to a certain amount of debate and stimulate further discussion in the nursing community.
In addition, a fair number of short posts are by AJN editors, in some cases bringing to bear their own clinical or personal experience as they address a matter of concern like nurse staffing, or providing essential context about why they think you should read an article found in that month’s issue.
As we’ve done in the past near the start […]
As is our tradition in the final weeks of the calendar year, we’d like to share the 10 most popular AJN blog posts of 2017. Most of these posts are by nurses who somehow find time to write in the midst of busy nursing and personal lives. One or two are by AJN editors. Not all, but most, are written by nurses.
Nurses in all settings are doing important work and making a difference, and we want to highlight them and the good work they do. AJN’s Profiles column highlights the diverse ways in which nurses contribute their leadership, compassion, and talent to enhance patient care directly in their institutions or through innovations in policy, research, or education that have had far-reaching impact.