The July issue of AJN is now live.

This month’s CE article, “Assessing and Promoting Sleep Health: A Brief Guide for Nurses,” outlines foundational information on sleep; general sleep health assessment; symptoms, risk factors, and screening measures related to common sleep disorders; and practical strategies nurses can use to promote healthy sleep.

“It’s important that RNs have effective ways to access and use integrative health programs and resources that are available to them. But this can be especially difficult for nurses who work at night,” write Withall and colleagues in “An Integrative Health Educational Intervention for RNs Working at Night: A Pilot Study.” This study aimed to assess whether an asynchronous integrative health educational intervention, tailored for night-shift nurses, was useful to them. (Open access)

Our July AJN Reports, “Maternal Health: ‘A Crisis Within a Crisis,'” explores how recent federal funding cuts are threatening efforts to improve care and disparities.

In “Utilization of Pressure Injury Prevention Interventions in Acute Care Hospitals,” the authors examine the relationship between nurses’ adherence to pressure injury prevention practices and hospital-acquired pressure injury development. (Open access)

As noted by Otis and colleagues in this month’s Program Evaluation, “The trauma that nurses experience when a patient dies is underrecognized and contributes to moral distress, burnout, and thoughts of leaving the profession.” To address this problem, the authors developed and implemented a Post-Death Care Team Protocol that aims to enhance nurses’ emotional well-being. Read “Supporting Nurses When a Patient Dies” to learn more. (Open access)

Don’t miss the extensive health care news sections, the Drug Watch and Journal Watch sections, a Specialty Spotlight on intellectual and developmental disabilities nursing, and more.

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