About Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor

Senior editor, American Journal of Nursing; editor of AJN Off the Charts.

Flu Preparedness Summit Issues Warning–But What Should Nurses Know?

“The Obama administration warned Americans on Thursday to be ready for an aggressive return of the swine flu virus in the fall, announcing plans to begin vaccinations in October and offering states and hospitals money to help them prepare.”

(Here’s the NY Times article quoted above. And here’s the flu preparedness summit held today by major players in the U.S. government, with archived video footage. Also: guidance for nurses, provided to AJN by the CDC in late April. We’ll be checking in with them soon for an update.)
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2009-07-09T17:24:42-04:00July 9th, 2009|Nursing|1 Comment
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Web Roundup: The Nursosphere, Dying Nuns, Transparency in Medical Pricing

emergiblogscreenshotJuly09We do our best to keep up with the nurse blogosphere, but it really helps to have regular help from Kim at Emergiblog, who has posted a fantastically varied and snappy roundup of recent blog posts by nurses in her latest edition of “Change of Shift.” (And thanks, Kim, as always, for the mention of Off the Charts.)

A while back, we noted a news story about parish nurses, and asked whether spirituality and nursing are a good fit—so it seems appropriate to mention two stories with some bearing on health care and its intersection with spiritual or religious matters. Daily Dose, the Washington Post blog “tracking the debate over health care reform,” writes that faith groups are increasingly engaged on the health care reform issue and are “pressing the moral urgency” for reform. And the NY Times has a thought-provoking article about nuns at one convent who are facing death “with dignity and reverence” while often eschewing aggressive treatment.

A convent is a world apart, unduplicable. But the Sisters of St. Joseph, a congregation in this Rochester suburb, animate many factors that studies say contribute to successful aging and a gentle death — none of which require this special setting. These include a large social network, intellectual stimulation, continued engagement in life and spiritual beliefs, as well as health care […]

2016-11-21T13:25:47-05:00July 9th, 2009|nursing perspective|0 Comments
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Useful Links for Understanding Health Care Reform

At Slate, a guide of sources to help those of you who’ve got the gumption (and time) begin to navigate the overwhelming amount of information and misinformation about health care reform.
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2009-07-08T16:58:45-04:00July 8th, 2009|health care policy|1 Comment
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Sexual Harassment by Doctors, and Signs of Growing Acceptance for HIPAA Privacy Laws

Here's an anonymous post from a new nurse graduate looking for advice about how to handle sexual harassment by a doctor. How would you advise her? And this post is a cautionary tale for all clinicians who've ever been tempted by curiosity about a patient: it describes just how easy it is for hospital information systems to detect when someone has violated HIPAA (short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) privacy laws by accessing a patient's record when they shouldn't.

2016-11-21T13:25:50-05:00July 8th, 2009|nursing perspective, students|2 Comments
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