Assessing Sleep Health: And Other Recommended Reading from AJN’s July Issue
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 […]
On the cover, Michelle Nai, MSN, RN, GERO-BC, at left, and Christine Waszynski, DNP, APRN, GNP-BC, at right, do doll therapy with a patient at the Therapeutic Hub—a nurse-led space at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, that offers multisensory activities to hospitalized older adults tailored to their interests and needs. Read Nai and colleagues’ 
