Recommended Reading from the June Issue of AJN

The June issue of AJN is now live. Here are some articles in this issue that we’d like to highlight. Note that some may be free only to subscribers.

Initiating Virtual Nursing in General Inpatient Care

This article describes how one hospital developed a virtual RN role for experienced nurses to support bedside RNs and patients on designated general care inpatient units. The photo on our cover this month shows a bedside nurse presenting educational material to her patient, the importance of which a virtual RN looking on from the tablet will help explain and reinforce.

Original Research: Patient Perception of Fall Risk in the Acute Care Setting

This study reveals the disconnect between hospitalized patients’ fall risk assessment results and their own perceptions of their fall risk.

Original Research: The Impact of COVID-19 on Pain Care Among Older Adults

These study findings highlight the many challenges pain management nurses faced, as well as opportunities to improve the health system and enhance nursing practice.

Hospice Nurse Ethics and Institutional Policies Toward Medical Aid in Dying

This article reviews the ethics of requiring nurses to leave the room while patients ingest aid-in-dying medications, and whether such rules are justifiable.

Coming Full Circle: A Transplant Nurse on Why Tissue Donation Matters

This moving Reflections story is about finding healing for a son’s loss.

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

• • A Focus on DEI column, “Inclusion and Belonging at the Bedside and Beyond.”
  • A Specialty Spotlight gives an inside look at nursing informatics.
  • In an editorial called “The Kids Are Still Not Alright,” editor-in-chief Carl Kirton discusses the current mental health crisis of children and adolescents.

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