“Under my leadership—like that of the editors before me—these pages will serve to document and transform clinical practice and provide a space for nurses to contribute their voices to matters affecting our world today.”—AJN editor-in-chief Carl Kirton in this month’s editorial

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

CE: The Impaired Nurse

A guide to early recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of substance-related disorders among colleagues in the workplace.

Original Research: ‘It Would Be Nice to Think We Could Have a Voice’: Exploring RN Involvement in Hospital Staffing Policymaking

This qualitative study examined staff nurses’ perceptions of factors that hinder or support nurse involvement in hospital nurse staffing policymaking—and how nurses are, or would like to be, so involved.

Historical Feature: A Long History of Abortion

In response to the Supreme Court’s decision ending the nationwide right to abortion, the author takes a close look at abortion in American history and AJN’s archives, including the various roles played and challenges encountered by nurses.

Nursing Research, Step by Step: Interpretive Methodologies in Qualitative Nursing Research

This article, one in a series on clinical research by nurses, explores the rich tradition of interpretive qualitative research practices, including phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, and case study.

Cultivating Quality: Pathway to Becoming a Progressive Care Certified Nurse

The authors describe the creation of a nurse-led program to encourage PCCN specialty certification among nurses on three cardiac medical progressive care units at a large academic health center.

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

  • An In the News article on potent marijuana strains that are making teens sick.
  • An AJN Reports on abortion care in America.
  • An Emerging Infections article on monkeypox.

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, members of the New York State Nurses Association rally in support of women’s health care.