Nurses’ Experiences on Staffing Committees: Recommended Reading in AJN’s February Issue

The February issue of AJN is now live.

“Original Research: A Real ‘Voice’ or ‘Lip Service’? Experiences of Staff Nurses Who Have Served on Staffing Committees,” explores nurses’ perspectives on staffing committee participation—including how they perceive their committee’s effectiveness, and how these committees can benefit patients, nurses, and organizations.

In this month’s CE article, “Our Journey to Pass a Surgical Plume Evacuation Law,” the authors describe their experience leading a grassroots coalition to address surgical plume evacuation in Illinois, and outline strategies nurses can apply to their own advocacy efforts.

New series! “Cultivating an Evidence-Based Decision-Making Mindset,” the first article in a new series on how to teach and facilitate learning about evidence-based practice and quality improvement, offers educators the content and tools needed to prepare nurses to be evidence-based decision-makers.

Read “Improving the Timing of Acute Care Insulin Delivery” to learn about an initiative to reduce both time to insulin delivery and percentage of bedtime insulin doses withheld.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, an editorial on Black nurses’ contributions to health care, a Viewpoint column on empowering NPs […]

2024-01-25T13:11:25-05:00January 25th, 2024|Nursing|0 Comments
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AI and Nursing: Are We Ready?

Three considerations about nursing and AI.

Lisiane Pruinelli

In my role as a nursing professor under the University of Florida Artificial Intelligence Initiative (ai.ufhealth.org) and in leading several national and international efforts, I apply what I’ve learned in years of clinical and educational experience to articulate the implications of AI for the nursing profession.

Doing so, I see three broad considerations that will affect the profession’s future. 1) The need to take into account the history of the nursing profession and the fact we are the most trusted profession in the US, 2) The question of how we can best incorporate new technologies and/or ideas into the care we deliver every day, and 3) The issue of how we can build the new generation of nurses while also training current nurses in order that they can play a role at the forefront of the AI/health care revolution while continuing to be strong advocates for safe and ethical care.

These three considerations are elaborated below:

2024-01-25T10:10:18-05:00January 16th, 2024|artificial intelligence (AI), Nursing, Technology|1 Comment
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Implementation Science: Systematic, Sustainable, Evidence-Based Change

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Reading the article by Russell-Babin and colleagues in the December 2023 issue of AJN made me grateful for all the work that went into developing the nursing implementation science (IS) program at Inova. As a nurse working at this health care system, I’d like to share how I benefited from being in the first cohort of nurses trained and engaged in IS over the last three years.

For the past eight years, I’ve been a clinical coordinator of two different disease-specific programs—first stroke and now sepsis. In these roles, I’ve been engaged in many different quality improvement (QI) projects and have become familiar with the tools and processes used to improve patient care and outcomes.

Towards more comprehensive and systematic evidence-based change.

However, as I was invited to step into the world of IS, I began to realize that a strict QI approach cannot alone bring about all the changes we desire within the complex systems of health care. The fact is that […]

2024-01-11T10:06:42-05:00January 11th, 2024|Nursing, nursing roles, Quality improvement|1 Comment
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Invisible Battles: Military Toxic Exposures and Health Provider Roles

Photo courtesy of U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs

The intersection of military service and environmental exposures has become an increasingly critical area of concern. Environmental factors affect the health and well-being of military personnel in complex and multifaceted ways, and ill and injured military veterans may find their high aspirations undermined by mental and physical ailments that significantly affect their quality of life.

This is the case for several of my family and friends, including my uncle, a veteran from the era of Desert Shield/Desert Storm, who has suffered for years because of the effects of environmental and other exposures while in the military.

A direct strike against health and wellness.

Many veterans say that they had a picture-perfect bill of health before exposure to environmental hazards during military service. Here is a glance at some of the exposures that service members faced in recent decades while in a garrison or on deployments to conflict zones.

Exposures and health impacts on service members:

2024-01-08T10:35:25-05:00January 8th, 2024|environmental health, Nursing|0 Comments
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Reducing Addiction Stigma: Recommended Reading in AJN’s January Issue

The January issue of AJN is now live.

What are the consequences of addiction stigma, and what steps can nurses take to reduce biases related to substance use? Learn more in this month’s CE, “Reducing Bias Against People with Substance Use Disorders.”

Get your 2024 reading list started: here are the winners of our annual Book of the Year Awards.

“Original Research: Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Asian Indians in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study” examines the relationships between select demographic variables and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among this population.

In “Improving Discharge Teaching for Adult Patients with an Ileostomy,” the authors discuss a QI project they conducted to decrease patient-initiated postdischarge inquiries by using a FAQ handout at discharge.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, a Viewpoint column on solving the nursing shortage, an AJN Reports on the U.S. maternal health crisis, and more.

A note on the cover:

This month’s cover honors Barbara J. Braden, PhD, RN, FAAN, who pioneered risk assessment and risk-based prevention of pressure injuries. Braden passed away in June 2023; read a tribute written by her […]

2023-12-26T11:05:07-05:00December 26th, 2023|Nursing|0 Comments
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