Nurses’ Duty to Care: Recommended Reading in AJN’s May Issue

The May issue of AJN is now live.

“If nurses are expected to have a strong sense of duty to care and to report to work even in disaster situations, then it’s essential to understand what factors influence that sense, in order to foster and sustain a workforce ready to do so,” write the authors of this month’s Original Research article, “Exploring U.S. Nurses’ Perceived Duty to Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Read the study here.

“The Mountain Model for Evidence-Based Practice Quality Improvement Initiatives” introduces a conceptual model that merges evidence-based practice and quality improvement principles into a unified framework with the goal of disseminating and sustaining EBPQI projects across health care. (CE credit available)

“Clinical Inquiry and Problem Identification,” the second article in our new Evidence-Based Decision-Making series, discusses optimizing clinical inquiry, using data to describe a clinical problem, and strategically developing a focused clinical question. A commentary on navigating clinical questions accompanies the article.

“Improving Medication Management for Inpatients with a Secondary Diagnosis of Parkinson Disease” describes how a nurse-led multidisciplinary team implemented a quality improvement project to identify patients with Parkinson disease and customize medication management […]

2024-04-29T10:19:38-04:00April 29th, 2024|Nursing|0 Comments
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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 to […]

2024-01-25T13:11:25-05:00January 25th, 2024|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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Military Environmental Exposures: Recommended Reading in AJN’s November Issue

The November issue of AJN is now live.

What should nurses know about caring for people who have been exposed to potentially harmful agents—such as air pollutants, chemicals, radiation, warfare agents, and materials containing asbestos and lead—during military service? Read “Military Environmental Exposures” to find out.

Our November CE article, “Recognizing Transfusion-Associated Circulatory Overload,” reviews the most current definitions of this adverse transfusion reaction and outlines its characteristics and management.

“What Health Care Staff Who Experienced Assisted Patient Falls Can Teach Us: Implications for Fall and Fall Injury Risk,” presents qualitative findings from a QI project aimed at improving guidance for staff on the risks of assisting falling patients.

“Nursing Research, Step by Step: Sample Size Planning in Quantitative Nursing Research,” one in a series on clinical research by nurses, describes how to determine an appropriate sample size for a quantitative research project, and introduces the concepts of error, power, and effect size.

In “Optimizing Blood Culture Collection Volumes,” the authors discuss a QI project they conducted to understand the causes of underfilled and overfilled blood cultures obtained by nurses and PCTs and to reduce their incidence.

See also the […]

2023-10-26T11:59:45-04:00October 26th, 2023|Nursing|0 Comments
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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:

“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 […]

2023-08-28T09:13:22-04:00August 28th, 2023|Nursing|0 Comments
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