This page collects all AJN’s posts on the coronavirus pandemic. We’ve been bringing you a broad range of nursing perspectives and stories since the first days of COVID-19. The page is regularly updated, with the newest posts at the top.
2022
- What Is Long COVID? (July 20)
- An ICU Nurse Reflects on Returning Home from ‘COVID Island’ (March 22)
2021
- Essentials for Nurses About Recognition and Treatment of MIS-C (October 19)
- Delta, Mu, and Others: What to Know About COVID Variants (September 14)
- School Nurses During COVID-19: Still Holding the Line (August 23)
- Food Allergies and COVID-19 Vaccine Facts (August 19)
- A New Nurse Learns Focus and Grace Under Pressure (August 6)
- A Plea for Help in Making Nursing Sustainable (July 29)
- Finding Perspective in an Ancient and Fabled Landscape (July 22)
- Pregnancy and COVID: What We Now Know (June 23)
- Caring for Caregivers: We Need More Than Self-Care and Resilience (May 27)
- Built for This: One NP’s Revitalized Practice (May 27)
- Making Sense of Loss, Finding Strength as a Nurse (May 13)
- A Year of Nursing, in Photos (May 7)
- Isn’t It Ironic: A Nurse Reflects on Her J&J Vaccine (April 26)
- Nurse Volunteers on the Front Lines of the Vaccination Effort (April 16)
- Remembering the Polio Vaccine Rollout, Addressing Concerns Today (April 5)
- Will We Ever Know How Many Nurses and Other Health Workers Died from COVID-19? (March 25)
- Learning on the Fly: Thoughts on Birding and Nursing During a Pandemic (March 21)
- ‘Right Under Our Noses’: Nightmarish Nursing Home Conditions During the Pandemic (March 18)
- What Do Nurses Need? (March 5)
- Joy, Relief, Reverence: Positive Side Effects of a First COVID-19 Vaccination (February 26)
- The ‘Clog Kick’: In Trying Times, Adapting to the Loss of a Palliative Care Team’s Essential Rituals (Feb. 18)
- The First Injection (Feb. 10)
- Who’s Going to Smile at My Baby? When the Pandemic Comes to the NICU (Feb. 8)
- COVID-19 Vaccines Explained (Jan. 19)
- Hospital Visiting Policies in the Days of COVID-19 (Jan. 8)
2020
- Levels of Weariness Among Nurses (December 16)
- An Intimate Glimpse of Community Health Nurses During the Pandemic (December 10)
- Finally a Mandate for Masks in North Dakota: But What Will It Mean? (November 17)
- Notes from the AIDS/HIV Epidemic for Nurses Working in the COVID Pandemic (November 9)
- Staying Away, Reaching Out: Offering Parents Support During the Pandemic (October 1)
- Bringing Redemptive Voices from Greek Tragedy to COVID’s Frontline Clinicians (August 27)
- Two Nurse Nurses Who Traveled to NYC to Care for COVID-19 Patients (September 3)
- Frontline Nurses Speak Out: A Health Care Crisis That ‘Didn’t Have to Be This Way’ (September 22)
- School Nurses as the New Front Line in the Struggle to Contain COVID (August 12)
- Many in Health Care Have Made Sense of COVID Through Art and Poetry (August 7)
- Nurses: In the Face-Off with COVID, We’re Doing ‘Alright’ (August 3)
- Every Frontline Has a Backline: What Nursing Can Learn from Rugby (July 22)
- How’s Your N95 Supply These Days? (June 19)
- Cast Into the Shadows: COVID’s Power Over Non-COVID Cases (June 2)
- Time Matters, Priorities Change: A Nurse and Cancer Survivor on Living with the Pandemic (May 27)
- COVID-19: It’s Not Only About Hospitalized Nurses (May 15)
- A Safety Paradox: Stay-at-Home Policies and Domestic Violence Risks (May 4)
- A Message from Frontline Nurses: Let’s Keep the Real Enemy in Sight (April 29)
- Coronavirus Casting Environmental, Climate Issues into Sharp Relief
- The U.S. Still Can’t Manage COVID-19 Testing: Why Is This Such a Big Deal? (April 20)
- Practicing the ABCDEs of Self-Care in Pandemic Times
- With a Mask and a Prayer: Two Poems by an ED Nurse
- Far From Home: A Flight Nurse Care’s for One of Covid-19’s ‘Peripheral Victims’
- Preserving Integrity and Staying Power as a Nurse in a Pandemic
- As Conflicting Recommendations Sow Public Confusion, Nurses Still Lack Adequate PPE and Equipment
- COVID-19: On and On: A Note from AJN’s Editor-in-Chief
- Moral Courage in a Pandemic: a 14th Century Physician and Health Care Workers Today (March 27)
- Note from a Young ICU Nurse as COVID-19 Pandemic Intensifies in the U.S. (March 25)
- COVID-19: Into the Battle With All That We Have and All That We Lack (March 23)
- COVID-19: What a New Study Says and Doesn’t Say About the Possibility of Airborne Transmission (March 20)
- 1918 Redux: Supportive Nursing Care for the Coronavirus Pandemic Is Courageous Care (March 18)
- Making Sense of Interim CDC Guidance on N95 vs. Surgical Masks for COVID-19 (March 13)
- If I Want to Wear a Face Mask to Prevent COVID-19, Why Shouldn’t I? (March 6; updated March 12)
- COVID-19 for Nurses: Skip the Rumors and Stick to the Basics (February 28)
- As Another Coronavirus Begins to Spread, Follow Reasonable Precautions and Avoid Fear-Mongering (January 24)