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:

• “Evidence-Based Decision-Making: Removing Persistent Barriers to Systematic Searching” discusses optimizing the systematic search to retrieve relevant results from the existing external evidence to answer a clinical question.
• “Applying Implementation Science: Implementing the Brøset Violence Checklist in the ED” describes how a nurse-led implementation science (IS) team at a multisite health system used IS concepts, methods, and tools to implement the Brøset Violence Checklist—a tool to predict a patient’s potential to become violent—in the system’s adult EDs.
• “Nursing Research, Step by Step: Methods to Disseminate Nursing Research: A Brief Overview” provides an introduction to disseminating research findings to other research professionals, clinicians, policymakers, and funders or sponsors.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, a Viewpoint on advancing the primary health care mandate for nursing, a Specialty Spotlight column on nurse scientists, and more.

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Some articles in this issue like the original research studies, news, and the editorial will be free to access; others will require log-in or subscription. You can subscribe to AJN, America’s most respected and oldest general interest nursing journal, for just $37.95 for a year (12 issues), so why not give it a try or give a subscription as a gift? We pay attention to appearance as well as content, and hope the cover of every issue will look good on a coffee table!