Nurse Voting, New Grad Bullying: And Other October Issue Highlights
The October issue of AJN is now live.
Here are some highlights. Some articles are open access or temporarily free; others will require log-in for access.
On this month’s cover is Flag, a work by California-based fiber artists Deb Cashatt and Kris Sazaki. See On the Cover to learn how they painstakingly created this piece.
“In a political climate marked by uncertainty and profound challenges, the nursing voice remains one of the nation’s most trusted. Democracy is stronger when nurses vote,” writes AJN editor-in-chief Carl Kirton in this month’s editorial.
With Election Day approaching, voting is the focus of an open-access CE article, “Nurse Voting in Ohio Primary Elections: A Cohort Study.” Ruth Ludwick and colleagues examine the voting behavior of LPNs, RNs, and advanced practice registered nurses in three recent Ohio primaries, and how licensure type and age were related to voting. Their findings suggest that the nursing profession has unrealized political power.
An additional CE article, “Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Diagnosis and Management,” outlines the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of iTTP—a rare, life-threatening hematologic disorder—plus criteria for diagnosis and current treatment strategies.
The latest installment in our Strip Savvy ECG interpretation series, “The Impacts of Hypocalcemia on QT Interval Duration,” […]
