“Nurses need to be out in the community—in schools, libraries, senior centers, wherever our neighbors gather—to help address COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and ensure that people have accurate information.”—editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy in her editorial, “A Most Welcome Spring”

The April issue of AJN is now live. Here’s what’s new. Some articles may be free only to subscribers.

CE: Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy

The author reviews common CIPN symptoms and outlines strategies nurses can use to assess, manage, and educate patients at risk for or already experiencing this frequent complication of neurotoxic chemotherapy.

CE: Nursing Orientation to Data Science and Machine Learning

A primer on how ‘big data’ and new analytic models are transforming nursing—including the opportunities and implications for nurses in various roles.

Cultivating Quality: Continuous Physiological Monitoring Improves Patient Outcomes

How a nurse-led initiative used wearable digital devices to enhance patient surveillance and better identify early signs of patient deterioration, thereby reducing rapid response team calls and ICU transfers.

Health and Safety: Standardizing the Accommodations Process for Health Care Workers During COVID-19

The authors describe the components of their institution’s accommodations review process, developed in response to increased employee work relief requests due to the pandemic.

Eye on the Future of Nursing: What Lies Ahead for Nursing?

Ten nursing leaders reflect on how 2020’s events may affect the future of the profession.

There’s much more in our April issue, including:

  • A Viewpoint on complexity science, nursing, and COVID-19.
  • An AJN Reports on improving the emergency response to mental health crises.
  • A Reflections essay on caring for a teen mother during labor.

Click here to browse the table of contents and explore the issue on our website.

A note on the cover.

This month’s cover photo features a newly opened bud on a cherry plum tree in AJN senior editor Corinne McSpedon’s front yard.  “I took the photo last spring, during the initial COVID crisis in New York, when signs of spring were particularly welcome,” she says. We chose this photo to reflect the feeling of hope that has emerged with the increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines.