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A Tale of Two Dangerous Products
Holding On / D’Arcy Norman, via Flickr Amanda Anderson, BSN, RN, CCRN, works in critical care in New York City and is enrolled in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing/Baruch College of Public Affairs...
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AJN’s May Issue: Intimate Partner Violence, What Clinical Nursing Instructors...
AJN’s May issue is now available on our Web site. And in honor of Nurses Week, we are offering free access to the entire issue for the whole week (May 6-12). Here’s a selection of what not to miss....
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Naloxone Saves Lives, But Not Every State Is Promoting Its Use
Joy Jacobson, a freelance writer and the former managing editor of AJN, wrote “Heroin: Life, Death, and Politics” for the May issue of the journal. She is a senior fellow at the Center for Health,...
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Remembering Nurses Who Go Above and Beyond as Volunteers
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief A severely dehydrated patient receives IV fluids from Kari Jones, MD, as she is carried by a family member from triage to a tent at the Bercy CTC. Photo courtesy...
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MERS: A Lucid Overview of What Nurses Need to Know
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor Coronaviruses derive their name from the fact that under electron microscopic examination, each virion is surrounded by a ‘corona,’ or halo. CDC image by Cynthia...
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Nurses Join Fight Against Counterfeit Medicines
Click infographic to enlarge “Fight the Fakes” is a scary article in the June issue of AJN about counterfeit medicines and the role the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has taken in the Fight the...
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Preventing the Next Elliot Rodger: A Call to Push for Solutions, Despite the...
Donna Sabella, PhD, MSN, PMHNP-BC, is a mental health nurse and assistant clinical professor and director of global studies at the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions in...
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Tragic Plane Crash, Truvada Concerns, Changing Infection Rates: AIDS/HIV...
Truvada / via Wikimedia Commons By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor There have been a number of recent high-profile news stories as well as some notable new research related to HIV/AIDS and its...
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Much Ado About a Fist Bump Study
By Karen Roush, clinical managing editor In this world of evidence-based care, is there anything to be said for common sense? Last week a study was published in the American Journal of Infection...
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Ebola: A Nurse Epidemiologist Puts the Outbreak in Perspective
By Betsy Todd, MPH, RN, CIC, AJN clinical editor By CDC microbiologist Cynthia Goldsmith, a colorized transmission electron micrograph (TEM) reveals some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed by...
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The Gaza Conflict, Through the Lens of Nursing
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor In 2005, AJN published an article looking at the experiences of nurses in Israel and in the Palestinian territories (free until September 15; choose ‘full text’ or...
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Labor Day Déjà Vu – Nurses’ Views of Work, Then and Now
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Photo from otisarchives4, via Flickr. If you like nursing history, there’s a new blog called Echoes and Evidence by the Barbara Bates Center for the Study...
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Enterovirus D68: Precautions, Surveillance, Yes; Alarm, No
By Betsy Todd, MPH, RN, CIC, AJN clinical editor As news coverage focuses on the latest clusters of suspected—and, in some instances, confirmed—cases of human enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) as they occur in...
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Ebola: Infection Control Resources Make All the Difference
This post is follow-up to our widely shared post (“Ebola: A Nurse Epidemiologist Puts the Outbreak in Perspective”) by AJN clinical editor Betsy Todd. The author, Amanda Anderson, is a critical care...
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Addressing Nurses’ Urgent Concerns About Ebola and Protective Equipment
By Betsy Todd, MPH, RN, CIC, AJN clinical editor. (See also her earlier post, “Ebola: A Nurse Epidemiologist Puts the Outbreak in Perspective.”) This is not a time to panic. It is a time to get things...
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Nurse Informaticists Address Texas Ebola Case, EHR Design Questions
By Susan McBride, PhD, RN-BC, CPHIMS, professor and program director of the Masters in Nursing Informatics Program, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, and Mari Tietze, PhD, RN-BC, FHIMSS,...
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Ebola: A Role for Nurses in Sharing the Facts
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief The current Ebola crisis has everyone concerned over transmission, and rightly so. The public has been in a quandary as to who and what to believe. I can’t say I...
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Focusing Nurses on Long- and Short-term Health Needs of Veterans and Their...
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief I’m always humbled when I speak with veterans or families of veterans. The commitment to duty of the military and the sacrifices their families make—long periods...
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Ebola Changes You: Reflections of a Nurse Upon Return from Liberia
By Deborah Wilson, RN. The author is currently an IV infusion therapist with the Berkshire Visiting Nurses Association in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and is completing her BSN at UMass Amherst. In...
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Always a Nurse
By Janice M. Scully. The author worked in psychiatric nursing for four years before becoming a physician. After 20 years as a physician, she retired to pursue a career as a writer. For more...
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