AJN's Top 15 Most Viewed Articles in 2013

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We thought readers might be interested in seeing which articles and topics got the most page views in 2013. Many of these articles are open access, including a number of CE articles as well as the articles from our Evidence-Based Practice: Step by Step series. Some articles require an AJN subscription or individual article purchase. Several of the articles in this list were from recent years other than 2013; a couple were much older, but are evidently still relevant, since not every idea in nursing is ephemeral or subject to improvement by the next generation.—Jacob Molyneux, senior editor

1. “Asking the Clinical Question: A Key Step in Evidence-Based Practice” – (March, 2010) – part of AJN‘s EBP series

2. “Improving Communication Among Nurses, Patients, and Physicians” – (November, 2009)

3. “The Seven Steps of Evidence-Based Practice” – (January, 2010) – part of our EBP series

4. “Nurses and the Affordable Care Act” – (September, 2010)

5. “From Novice to Expert: Excellence and Power in Clinical Nursing Practice” – (December, 1984; not HTML version; readers must click through to PDF version)

6. “COPD Exacerbations” – (CE article; February, 2013)

7. “Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest” – (CE; July, 2012)

8. “From Novice to Expert” – (March, 1982; article looks at stages to mastery; no html version, so click the PDF link on the landing page)

9. “Men in Nursing” – (CE; January, 2013)

10. “Using Evidence-Based Practice to Reduce Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections” – (June, 2013) – part of EBP series

11. “Preventing and Responding to Acute Kidney Injury” – (CE; April, 2013)

12. “Mouth Care to Reduce Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia” – (CE; October, 2013)