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Dispatch #2 from Melbourne: Dues, Election Results, Nursing at the WHO

By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief

Melbourne, Australia

There’s lots happening at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) meeting and I’ve logged more walking miles here in Melbourne in the last two days than I do in a week at home. Judith Shamian

On Monday, the Council of National Representatives (CNR), the ICN’s governing body, announced election results. Judith Shamian, a well-known Canadian nursing leader, was elected the 27th president of the ICN. (For more information about Judith and other election results, read this press release.)

The CNR also agreed to address issues related to membership models and will move forward with a plan designed to support inclusiveness and membership growth in national associations. The plan also includes a tiered voting model that takes membership and percentage of membership into account. (The final vote will take place at the 2015 Congress). Rosemary Bryant

New dues scheme: will RCN return? […]

Amy M. Collins, managing editor2016-11-21T13:07:32-05:00May 21st, 2013|career|2 Comments

Surely, ‘Tis Not an Easy Cap to Satisfy…A Nurse’s 1929 Meditation on Nursing Caps

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By Karen Roush, AJN clinical managing editor

Though the nursing cap went by the wayside years ago, this beautifully written essay by a nurse about her cap, published in AJN in April, 1929, struck me as a metaphor for many things—nursing itself chief among them. And though the wearing of a cap may have changed, what this author expressed in 1929 about nursing hasn’t: “sympathy without sentimentality; broad understanding without cynicism; charity without weakness.”

The opening paragraphs are below, but the entire essay, “My Cap,” will be free until next week on the AJN Web site.

Guest Author2016-11-21T13:07:38-05:00May 8th, 2013|career, nursing perspective|1 Comment

In Celebration of Nurses: Voices from AJN Archives

Today starts Nurses Week. AJN is participating in Lippincott’s Nurses Week initiative, and the entire May issue will be set for open access this week. Additionally, we are reprinting here a wonderful editorial from one of AJN’s former editors, Mary Mallison (click the text below for a larger version, or go to this link for the PDF version, free until June 6). Check in each day as we post voices from nurses from the AJN archives. Enjoy and take pride in our profession, in all that nurses have accomplished, and what nurses are doing today.—Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief

Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor2016-11-21T13:07:41-05:00May 6th, 2013|career, nursing perspective|0 Comments

AJN’s May Issue: Telephone Follow-Up After Myocardial Revascularization, Hemodynamic Monitoring, Staffing Levels, Nurses Week, More

AJN’s May issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss.

Coronary heart disease afflicts more than 16 million American adults. Myocardial revascularization has long been considered an effective treatment for this disease. Findings presented in our May original research article, “Telephone Follow-Up for Patients After Myocardial Revascularization: A Systematic Review,” support the use of telephone follow-up intervention after hospital discharge to assess patient knowledge, discuss patient concerns, and encourage behavioral and lifestyle changes. This article can earn you 2.6 continuing education (CE) credits.

Recently, there’s been a shift toward less invasive or noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring methods, and the use of “functional” indicators that more accurately predict fluid responsiveness. “Using Functional Hemodynamic Indicators to Guide Fluid Therapy,” a CE article that can earn you 2.6 credits, reviews the physiologic principles of functional hemodynamic indicators, describes how these indicators are calculated, and discusses when and how nurses can use them to guide fluid resuscitation in critically ill patients.

Celebrating Nurses Week. May’s In Our Community article describes how nurses from one hospital decided to forego traditional gifts during National Nurses Week and instead implemented a “Nurses Give Back” program in their community. How does your hospital celebrate? If you’re reading AJN on your iPad, you can listen to a podcast interview with the authors by clicking on the podcast icon on the first page of the article. The podcast is also available on our […]

Amy M. Collins, managing editor2016-11-21T13:07:43-05:00April 26th, 2013|career, nursing research|0 Comments

It Bears Repeating: ‘A Smart Doctor Listens to the Nurses’

AprilReflectionsIllustraion By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor

The April Reflections essay in AJN—Reflections is a monthly one-page column we’ve run for many years inside the back cover—has an unambiguous title: “A Smart Doctor Listens to the Nurses.”

Written by a pediatrician whose mother was a nurse, it gives a vision of continuity in the health care profession rather than opposition, of mothers and daughters, and seems particularly relevant as debates continue about whether or not nurses should be allowed to practice to the full scope of their abilities and knowledge. Here’s the opening paragraph, but it’s free, and we hope you’ll read the entire short essay:

I was in the hall outside a patient’s room with a new crop of interns and residents. As usual, they had all made rounds first thing in the morning, checked on new lab results, examined their patients, and were now ready to report everything to me, the attending. And, as usual, these bright, eager residents, though anxious to do a good job, hadn’t thought to talk with the nurses taking care of their patients.