AJN Collections of Note: From Women’s Health Issues to Assessment Tools for Older Adults

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It’s easy to miss, but there’s a tab at the top of the AJN home page that will take you to our collections page. There you can delve more deeply into a wide range of topics—and find many options for obtaining continuing education credits in the process.

For example, you’ll find a collection of recent continuing education (CE) feature articles devoted to women’s health issues, such as menopausal hormone therapy, cardiovascular disease prevention for women, and issues faced by young women who are BRCA positive.

The patient population in the U.S. continues to age. To gain confidence in meeting the needs of these patients, nurses can consult our practical collection of articles and videos devoted to the use of evidence-based geriatric assessment tools and best practices.

For the more creative side of nursing, we have a collection of 20 visual works and poems from our Art of Nursing column.

For those concerned with potential legal issues, it’s a good idea to have a look at the three CE articles from our Legal Clinic column on protecting your nursing license.

For would-be authors and those interested in applying knowledge to practice more effectively, there are step-by-step series on conducting a systematic review and on how nurses can implement evidence-based practice at their institutions.

But that’s just a few of the collections you can find there. It’s also worth noting that many of these collections offer continuing education credits and can be accessed without log-in or subscription.

(Note: on some smartphones, the links above may take you to the AJN home page instead of to the specific collections. If this does occur, you can just click the Collections tab at the top of the home page to find the specific collection referred to. This redirect shouldn’t occur for readers using laptops and we hope to correct the problem soon.)