“Kindness goes a long way. Patience. Remember that everybody’s going through something.”—school nurse Tonja Frank in the November Conversations article

The November issue of AJN is now live. Here’s what’s new. Some articles may be free only to subscribers.

Original Research: Suicidal Ideation and Attitudes Toward Help Seeking in U.S. Nurses Relative to the General Working Population

This study investigated the prevalence of suicidal ideation and attitudes toward seeking mental health care among U.S. nurses relative to other workers; and, among nurses, the extent to which personal and professional factors, including burnout, were related to suicidal ideation.

CE: Pediatric Antibiotic Stewardship

The authors review the evidence on shorter versus longer duration of antibiotic therapy for pediatric patients and discuss the nurse’s role in antibiotic stewardship.

Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: The 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System

This article—the first in a new series published in collaboration with the AARP Public Policy Institute—outlines the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System framework and how it can be implemented by the health care team, including nurses and family caregivers, in the inpatient hospital setting.

Special Feature: Novel Deployment of Pediatric Biocontainment Unit Nurses in Response to COVID-19

How a team of trained biocontainment unit nurses at one institution contributed to staff education and enhanced staff safety and support during the first months of the pandemic.

Historical Feature: The Flu Pandemic of 1918: A Nurse’s Story

The author describes her grandmother’s experiences as a nurse during the 1918 influenza pandemic and draws comparisons to nursing during COVID-19.

There’s much more in our November issue, including:

  • A Viewpoint on increasing the number of Black donors in the bone marrow registry.
  • An AJN Reports on community benefit programs.
  • A Nursing Resources column on medical and recreational marijuana.

Click here to browse the table of contents and explore the issue on our website.

A note on the cover.

On this month’s cover, a nurse goes over discharge instructions with an older adult and her family caregiver. We chose to feature this photo in recognition of both National Family Caregivers Month and the start of a new AJN series, Supporting Family Caregivers in the 4Ms of an Age-Friendly Health System.