This month’s cover honors Thelma M. Schorr, nursing trailblazer and past editor of AJN. Read a tribute to Schorr here.
The March issue of AJN is now live.
This month, you’ll find two Original Research articles:
- “The Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Blood Pressure in Black Adults: A Narrative Review,” which explores the current literature on the relationship between perceived discrimination—everyday, lifetime, or both—and its impact on blood pressure among Black adults
- “The Effects of the Physical and Professional Workplace Environments on the Well‑Being of Nursing Staff,” which examines the relationship between nurses in tertiary care hospital facilities and their professional practice environment; their self-perception of the physical hospital workplace environment; and outcome measures, including overall psychological stress, burnout, job satisfaction, and job stress (CE credit available)
In “Leaving Against Medical Advice: What’s a Nurse to Do?,” the authors explore the nurse’s role and ethical responsibilities when a patient chooses to leave the hospital AMA, highlighting steps nurses can take to prioritize the patient’s well-being and advocate for the patient’s interests.
“Improving Discharge Education and Outcomes for Patients with Heart Failure,” the fourth article in a series on applying implementation science (IS), describes how a nurse-led team at a multisite health system used IS concepts, methods, and tools to implement a discharge education bundle for patients with heart failure at two community hospitals.
“Implementing an Activity and Mobility Promotion Approach to Improve Patient Mobility” describes a quality improvement project that implemented the Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion program at a large safety-net hospital, assessed the feasibility of implementing this program, and examined its preliminary impact on patient mobility. (Open Access)
Don’t miss the extensive health care news sections, the Drug Watch section, an AJN Reports on Medicare Advantage plans, a Specialty Spotlight on critical care transport nursing, and more.
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