The March issue of AJN is now live.
“Nurses play a critical role in disaster preparedness, response, and recovery,” says Linda M. MacIntyre, PhD, RN, PHN, FAAN, chief nurse of the American Red Cross (see On the Cover). Two articles in this month’s issue address disaster care:
- “Enhancing Disaster Management Preparedness Through Simulation,” which describes a mock disaster drill for nursing students in which volunteers acted as earthquake victims and
local emergency medical personnel accepted patient handoff from the students. - “Palliating Serious Illness During Disasters and Public Health Emergencies,” which posits that all nurses must be better prepared to provide equitable palliative care—particularly as climate change–related disasters become more common.
Brain drain is increasing in health care. “Original Research: Nurses’ Attitudes Toward Brain Drain and the Associated Factors” explores the attitudes of Turkish nurses, nurse academics, and nursing students toward this problem in the nursing profession.
In this month’s CE article, “Beyond PICO—A New Question Simplifies the Search for Evidence,” the authors present the framework for an alternative to the PICO question—PPCO, or problem, population, change, outcome—that provides a universal approach to question development for evidence-based practice QI initiatives and for all nursing issues that need addressing.
Read “Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Alternating Pressure Overlay in Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery” to learn about a QI project that aimed to measure perioperative hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) rates in cardiothoracic surgery patients after the addition of alternating pressure overlays to a HAPI prevention protocol, and to identify common factors among those patients who developed HAPIs.
See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, an AJN Reports on abortion care in the Dobbs era, a Specialty Spotlight on infection control nursing, and more.
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