AJN’s 2025 Book of the Year Awards and Other Highlights of the January Issue
The January issue of AJN is now live. AJN’s 2025 Book of the Year Awards can be found in the the current issue. Browse judges’ choices in a wide variety of categories. On this month’s cover is Eyes of Gold 2 [Children of The Sun With Moon Crescent Blood], a work by artist Rizzy Akanji, creative director of […]
The Ethical Use of our Therapeutic Connections with Patients’ Families
“What would you do, doctor?” The family had been explicit in wanting straightforward communication about their child, whose neurological disease had progressed to the point where she was continually seizing, despite every medication the physicians had tried. The seizures were in turn damaging her brain, such that she was minimally responsive to stimuli and was […]
Nursing Is Still a Profession — But a New Loan Law Treats It Differently
What new federal “professional degree” loan caps actually mean for graduate nursing students Over the past few weeks, many nurses have watched headlines and social media posts claim that “Trump made nursing no longer a profession.” That line is alarming—but it isn’t accurate. Nursing is still a licensed profession defined by statute, governed by boards […]
Multidrug Resistance: A Growing Threat of Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Organisms in Health Care
Nurses are well aware of the problems with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and their ubiquitous presence across health care settings. Care issues and outcomes among patients with MDROs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococcus (VRE), and Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) have increased awareness, but MDROs remain a growing challenge in the provision of care […]
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing Chest pain resulting from pulmonary embolism is often pleuritic and associated with dyspnea, hemoptysis, cough or syncope. Physical examination findings are generally nonspecific in pulmonary embolism.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing All patients suspected of having acute coronary syndrome should be treated with aspirin, if not contraindicated (e.g., aortic dissection also suspected), or alternatively prasugrel or ticagrelor if there is aspirin allergy.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing There are no specific physical examination findings of acute coronary syndrome, but if it is severe enough to induce left ventricular dysfunction, signs such as hypotension and an S3 or S4 heart sound can be present.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing In the absence of an obvious cause of chest pain (e.g., shingles), a chest x-ray and ECG should be obtained. A chest CT can help diagnose a number of causes including pulmonary embolism, aortic dissection, pneumothorax and pneumonia.
Nursing Tip of the Day! – Critical Care Nursing
Category: Critical Care Nursing A number of clinical strategies may be used in the ICU patient who shows evidence of ileus or significant GI dysmotility. Electrolytes should be corrected, minimizing subsequent alterations, particularly in potassium and magnesium.
The Relentless School Nurse: When the Work Outgrows the System
Over the last 25 years, I have seen how the needs inside our school health offices have multiplied. What once was manageable is now layered, constant, and inseparable from the complexities students bring with them. Students arrive carrying more health concerns, more anxiety, more instability, and, too often, fewer supports. So do the adults… The…