“As nurses we all care. It’s what we do. We care until our hearts hurt like an overused muscle.”—Eileen J. Glover in her Reflections essay, “The Suffering of Simone”

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

Original Research: Losing the Art and Failing the Science of Nursing: The Experiences of Nurses Working During the COVID-19 Pandemic

The authors of this qualitative descriptive study sought to understand nurses’ work experiences in various U.S. health care settings during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic, and to learn more about barriers to and facilitators of their work.

CE: Trauma-Informed Care in Nursing Practice

This article presents the six foundational principles of trauma-informed care, using a case study to discuss the application of these core principles in nursing.

Improving Accuracy in Documenting Cardiopulmonary Arrest Events

The authors describe a quality improvement initiative to compare the timeliness and accuracy of paper-based versus electronic documentation of live cardiopulmonary arrest events.

Planetary Health Nursing

How nurses can become involved in efforts to restore human health and the Earth’s ecosystems—specifically in the areas of nursing research, education, advocacy, and practice.

Nursing Research, Step by Step: Secondary Data in Nursing Research

This article—one in a series on clinical research by nurses—discusses the alignment of research goals with secondary data sources, explores sources of publicly available secondary data that might be of interest to nurse researchers, and outlines the costs and benefits of using secondary data.

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

  • A Viewpoint on meeting substance use patients where they are.
  • An In the News article on the health effects of climate change.
  • A Nursing Resources column on autism spectrum disorder.

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

A note on the cover.

On this month’s cover is Pregnant Planet: Mother Earth’s Call to Nurture the Place that Nurtures Us from the First Moments of Life, a pastel drawing by Susan L. Prescott, MD, PhD. A pediatrician, immunologist, artist, author, and advocate for ecological and social justice, she says that the artwork “depicts an intimate personal and nurturing relationship with our planet.”