“If there is any group that needs a day at the beach, it’s nurses.”—editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy in her August editorial, “Nursing Is No Day at the Beach”

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

Original Research: Well-Being and Resilience Among Health Care Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study

The authors of this study surveyed health care staff (58% nurses) in June and July 2020 to identify modifiable environmental factors in the workplace that affect well-being and resilience.

CE: Monitoring Adult Patients for Intolerance to Gastric Tube Feedings

An overview of recent guidelines and best practices for the care of enterally fed adults.

AJN Reports: School Nursing During a Pandemic

How COVID-19 introduced new challenges for school nurses—and what may lie ahead this fall.

Question of Practice: Secondary Medication Administration and IV Smart Pump Setup

This article discusses the technical requirements that every nurse should know when administering secondary medications using an IV smart pump.

Ethical Issues: Care and Ethics: Inseparable and Relational

The author presents a real case in which, unbeknownst to the patient, a planned appendectomy led to removal of more than his appendix—demonstrating the ubiquity of ethical issues in patient care.

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

  • A Viewpoint article on changing the narrative of African-American race as a nonmodifiable risk factor.
  • A Nursing Research, Step by Step column on selecting and implementing outcome measurements in clinical research.
  • A Reflections essay on being a new nurse at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

A note on the cover.

The summer sunset on this month’s cover, photographed at Lake Michigan, produces a much-needed feeling of serenity in light of the past year. Nurse wellness is addressed in several articles in this issue.