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Neither Snow, Sleet, Hail, nor Major Blizzard: Business as Usual for Nurses
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief The snowbanks in the New York area are already starting to melt, but it’s worth noting that this past weekend’s massive storm was business as usual for nurses. The...
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AJN in February: Latino RNs in the U.S., Nurse Bullying, Hypoglycemia in...
On this month’s cover, nurse Sarah Carruth comforts a young patient at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, DC. This photo is the second-place winner of AJN’s 2015 Faces of Caring: Nurses...
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Rightness: A Flight Nurse Taps Into the Universal Language of Nursing
“Immersed in a nursing role that I didn’t even know existed when I entered the profession, I find there to be a common language—one rooted in science but strongest in humanity and compassion,...
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Hospital Shootings: Unacknowledged Job Hazard?
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, is an oncology nurse navigator and writes a monthly post for this blog. Illustration by the author. Recently, while preparing for work, I received the following text from a...
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‘A New Antibiotic’: What Restores a Patient’s Will to Recover?
Illustration by Pat Kinsella. All rights reserved. A little bit of levity when writing of serious topics can be good medicine. This month’s Reflections essay, “A New Antibiotic,” reminds us of how...
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Workplace Bullying: One Medical Center’s Nurses Assess and Respond
photo by Ronald Keller Bullying against or by nurses has gotten a lot of attention in recent years. Aside from the suffering bullying inflicts on its victims, research tells us that bullying (which...
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American Heart Month: Education, Awareness Crucial to Fight Heart Disease
© American Heart Association In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed the first ever American Heart Month: “It is essential to the health and well-being of our nation that our citizens be made...
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The Bigger Picture: A New Nurse Embraces Her Ability to Still Ask ‘Why?’
Sarah Szulecki, BSN, RN, is a telemetry nurse at a hospital in New York State. karen eliot/flickr As a new graduate nurse, I’ve found that adjusting to the microcosm of the hospital floor—its SBAR...
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Nurse Helps Prepare Police for Encounters with the Mentally Ill
Jeannine Loucks, MSN, RN-BC, PMH, with Captain Dan Cahill (left) and Chief Robert H. Gustafson at the Orange County Police Department in Orange, California. Photo courtesy of the Orange Police...
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Latino Nurses in the United States: Numbers Don’t Reflect Demographic Trends
“Increasing [the] numbers of RNs from minority backgrounds is a prime consideration in reducing the substantial racial and ethnic disparities in health.” – National Advisory Council on Nurse Education...
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AJN in March: Caring for Dying Prisoners, RRTs, Sexual Abuse and...
This month’s cover shows an elderly prisoner being handcuffed before transportation to a local hospital. Older inmates like this one represent the fastest growing age demographic in the U.S. prison...
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Nursing Reads: A Powerful New Novel Evokes Diverse Perspectives on an Organ...
By Marcy Phipps, BSN, RN, CCRN, chief flight nurse at Global Jetcare The Heart, a new novel by Maylis de Kerangal, caught my attention with a cover art image suggestive of the vascular and as...
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Just Breathe: A Nurse’s Tough Love Proves Crucial During One Mother’s Labor
Photo by chintermeyer, via Flickr. By Amy Collins, AJN managing editor The pain jolted me from my sleep. It was 1:30 in the morning. The sensation was stronger than anything I’d ever felt, and I...
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‘Less Codes, Less Death’: A Study Explores Nurses’ Perceptions of the...
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor For any given health care program, staff perceptions about how well it works will affect its use and maintenance. This is the case with regard to rapid response teams...
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Parallel Developments: Women’s Rights and the Professional Identity of Nurses
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief When women marched in the street to gain the right to vote, nurses marched with them. It’s no coincidence that nursing’s push for a professional identity...
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