American Journal of Nursing (AJN)

"Nurses in every specialty, but especially those who prepare individuals and families for international travel, will want to know about this latest dengue surge. All U.S. nurses will want to know how to triage, manage, and follow-up these patients to prevent local outbreaks and life-threatening complications." This post by Gail Rosselot, MS, MPH, APRN-BC, FAANP, FISTM, FATHNA gives the essentials: https://lnkd.in/eg3WrvVf #infectiousdisease #prevention #climatechange #nursing

If you're watching the #AnnBurgess documentary Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer, and want to learn more about her, here's a profile on her published in AJN in 2017. https://lnkd.in/etu6j7aH

In this month's Specialty Spotlight, Deltra Muoki, PhD, APRN, AGNP-C, CMSRN, CNE, NE-BC discusses the role of the nurse scientist. "Nurse scientists identify gaps in nursing knowledge and clinical practice and develop projects that generate new knowledge with the intention of changing practice and enhancing outcomes." Read the full article here. https://lnkd.in/eN4bUhWq

In this month's CE, authors describe a quality improvement project involving the implementation of capnography-guided small-bore feeding tube placement to reduce complications and the incidence of lung perforation in adult patients. https://lnkd.in/e6MAqb2a #patientsafety #QI #CE

AJN's editor-in-chief Carl Kirton DNP, RN, MBA, ANP, FAAN devotes his July editorial to exploring the question of whether a STEM designation for the #nursing profession could be a "game changer" that could help alleviate the nursing workforce problem. This one-pager is currently free to read. Thoughts? https://lnkd.in/efXBwy52

Our new July issue includes articles on the primary care mandate for nursing, implementation science, evidence-based decision-making, and much more. Browse the highlights: https://lnkd.in/gKhDJaXh #nursing

Check out the latest episode on the AJN Podcast. Our guest, Emily Bell, RN, APRN, PMHNP-BC talks with Christine Moffa, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC about advocating for the nursing profession through the legislative process. https://lnkd.in/eG2SYtPv #nursing #legislation

"Since the A1C is only an average, the person with diabetes and their clinician do not know whether the average glucose level results from relatively stable blood glucose levels within a target range during this period or whether it reflects an average that includes many highs and lows. With a disease that requires so much self-management, effective tools like CGMs and knowledgeable nurses as care providers can increase motivation and make the heavy task of glucose control manageable." https://lnkd.in/eJf_cWjD Susan Renda Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

The Transformative Experience of a Personal Health Crisis - in a short, thought-provoking essay, pediatric ICU nurse Hui-wen Sato writes: "If I'm honest, the version of me before my own medical crises would have treated Brenda with kindness, but probably also more self-centeredness than I would have realized....I now understand what it is like to be in the early, disorienting phase of a . . . medical journey that you never could have imagined for yourself. I remember how shockingly difficult it was for me to just figure out my basic, familiar life." https://lnkd.in/eDH7T6Qw #nursing #empathy

"The biggest barrier to recruiting and retaining nursing faculty is the salary gap between the faculty and clinical nursing roles." https://lnkd.in/eRVQnaxH Can this compensation gap be closed, or at least substantially reduced? Thank you to authors Jacqueline Christianson, Christine Schindler, and Lisa Grabert for writing a short, excellent post on this persistent issue.