Investigating Nurse-Reported Missed Care: Recommended Reading in AJN’s September Issue

The September issue of AJN is now live.

This month features two Original Research articles:

• “‘Do I See Myself?’ Exploring the Potential for Online Images to Attract a Diverse Nursing Workforce,” which  examines how online images of health care workers vary by gender and skin tone and how those representations might impact recruitment.
• “Nurse-Reported Missed Care and Its Association with Staff Demographics and the Work Environment,” which evaluates the prevalence of, types of, and reasons for nurse-reported missed care, including staff-associated factors, at one hospital.

“Exploring the Human Experience in Health Care,” the first article in a new series from health care performance improvement organization Press Ganey, discusses the emerging concept of human-centered care—and how data can be used to help deliver it.

Read “Pneumococcal Vaccination in Adults” to learn about updated pneumococcal vaccine recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which include two new vaccines.

What can nurses do to protect patient safety and provide good care in light of record-high, ongoing national drug shortages? See AJN Reports to find out.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, a Specialty Spotlight column highlighting the role of the clinical nurse specialist, and the latest installments in our Strip Savvy and Nursing Research, Step by Step series.

A note on the cover: This month’s cover pictures students from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in Baltimore, Maryland. The school is a five-time recipient of the INSIGHT into Diversity Health Professions Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award and a four-time recipient of the Best School for Men in Nursing award. “Achieving true health equity will require all people to feel they belong in nursing,” says Sarah L. Szanton, PhD, RN, FAAN, the school’s dean.

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Some articles in this issue like the original research studies, news, and the editorial will be free to access; others will require log-in or subscription. You can subscribe to AJN, America’s most respected and oldest general interest nursing journal, for just $37.95 for a year (12 issues), so why not give it a try or give a subscription as a gift? We pay attention to appearance as well as content, and hope the cover of every issue will look good on a coffee table!