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Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the December issue of AJN, including articles such as “Assessing Organizational Focus on Health Literacy in North Texas Hospitals,” “Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Review of Current Diagnostic Criteria and Management,” “Special Report: Frontline Nurses Say ‘Never Again,’” “Cultivating Quality: Dispensing a Naloxone Kit at Hospital Discharge: A Retrospective QI Project,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Managing Home Infusion Therapy,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the November issue of AJN, including articles such as “Family Presence During Resuscitation: Medical–Surgical Nurses’ Perceptions, Self-Confidence, and Use of Invitations,” “Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Nurse’s Role,” “AJN Reports: The Politicization of COVID-19,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Home Oxygen Therapy,” “Cultivating Quality: Improving Equitable Access to Cervical Cancer Screening and Management,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the October issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Suicide Among RNs: An Analysis of 2015 Data from the National Violent Death Reporting System,” “From the CDC: Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder,” “Nursing Research, Step by Step: How Does Research Start?,” “Special Feature: Behind the Scenes of an Educational Escape Room,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the September issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Nurses’ Knowledge and Comfort with Assessing Inpatients’ Firearm Access and Providing Education on Safe Gun Storage,” “Trauma-Related Hemorrhagic Shock: A Clinical Review,” “Special Feature: An Intimate Glimpse of Emergency Nurses at Work,” “Cultivating Quality: Nurses’ Perceptions of Technology Used in Language Interpretation for Patients with Limited English Proficiency,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the August issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Understanding Nursing Home Staff Attitudes Toward Death and Dying: A Survey,” “PANDAS: Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infection,” “Historical Feature: ‘You Don’t Have Any Business Being This Good’: An Oral History Interview with Bernardine Lacey,” “Cultivating Quality: An Evidence-Based Approach to Increasing Nurses’ Publication Rates,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the July issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: How Magnet Hospital Status Affects Nurses, Patients, and Organizations: A Systematic Review,” “The Effects of Smoking on Bone Health and Healing,” “Special Feature: Perceived Barriers to Rapid Response Team Activation Among Nurses,” “Cultivating Quality: Preventing Falls Among Behavioral Health Patients,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the June issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: The Relationship Between Food Insecurity and Cost-Related Medication Nonadherence in Older Adults: A Systematic Review,” “Opioid Use Disorder: Pathophysiology, Assessment, and Effective Interventions,” “Special Feature: Reducing Waste in the Clinical Setting,” “Back to Basics: Abnormal Basic Metabolic Panel Findings: Implications for Nursing,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the May issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Exploring the Effects of a Nurse-Initiated Diary Intervention on Post–Critical Care Posttraumatic Stress Disorder,” “Managing Pain in Critically Ill Adults: A Holistic Approach,” “Strip Savvy: A Case of Bradycardia and Extreme Fatigue,” “Cultivating Quality: Caring for Visually Impaired Patients in the Hospital: A Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Project,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the April issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: An Investigation of Career Choice Regret Among American Nurses,” “Acute Care for Patients with Dementia,” “Reducing Waste and Increasing Sustainability in Health Care Settings,” “A Diabetes Screening and Educational Event in Rural Alabama,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the March issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Arthritis-Related Functional Limitations and Inadequate Physical Activity Among Female Adult Cancer Survivors,” “Brain Death: History, Updates, and Implications for Nurses,” “Case in Point: Mirror Therapy in the Management of Phantom Limb Pain,” “Cultivating Quality: Standardizing the Frequency of Neurologic Assessment After Acute Stroke,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the February issue of AJN, including articles such as “An Evidence-Based Update on Contraception,” “Mitigating the Dangers of Polypharmacy in Community-Dwelling Older Adults,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Managing Urinary Incontinence,” “Disaster Care: Transporting Children to Safety After Volcanic Eruption,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the January issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: The Recruitment Experience of Foreign-Educated Health Professionals to the United States,” “Assessing and Managing Spiritual Distress in Cancer Survivorship,” “Back to Basics: Concentration and Volume: Understanding Sodium and Water in the Body,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the December issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Experiences of Diabetes Burnout: A Qualitative Study Among People with Type 1 Diabetes,” “Hematologic Childhood Cancers: An Evidence-Based Review,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Dietary and Feeding Modifications for Older Adults,” “EBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: The Malnutrition Readmission Prevention Protocol,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the November issue of AJN, including articles such as “Implementing Guidelines for Treating Chronic Pain with Prescription Opioids,” “Gestational Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Clinical Review,” “Supporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Eating for Healthy Aging,” “Preventing Self-Harm in the Nonpsychiatric Health Care Setting,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the October issue of AJN, including articles such as “Infection in Acute Care: Evidence for Practice,” “Knowledge of Precision Medicine and Health Care: An Essential Nursing Competency,” “Countering Vaccine Misinformation,” “Implementing a Fast-Track Team Triage Approach in Response to Hurricane Maria,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the September issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: Are Milk and Molasses Enemas Safe for Hospitalized Adults? A Retrospective Electronic Health Record Review,” “HIV Update: An Epidemic Transformed,” “Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy Performed by RNs: A Review of Clinical Practice,” “Using Debriefing Methods in the Postclinical Conference,” and more!

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the August issue of AJN, including articles such as “Original Research: The Clinical Research Nurse: Exploring Self-Perceptions About the Value of the Role,” “Obesity-Related Cancer in Women: A Clinical Review,” “The Changing Landscape of Simulation-Based Education,” “Improving Screening and Education for Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Primary Care Settings,” and more!

This Month in AJN –  July 2019 monthly highlights July 2019 Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the July issue of AJN. The authors of our first CE, “Original Research: Helping Health Care Providers and Staff Process Grief Through a Hospital-Based Program,” investigated the feasibility and effectiveness of offering an intensive bereavement support program to hospital employees in a large health system. Our second CE, “Addressing Implicit Bias in Nursing: A Review,” describes the ways that implicit, or unconscious, bias among health care providers can contribute to health care disparities, and offers strategies nurses can use to discover and overcome their own implicit biases. The author of “Rising to the Challenge: Re-Embracing the Wald Model of Nursing,” discusses how Lillian Wald’s model of health care may be useful today as nurses seek to address diseases of despair and improve health equity.

This Month in AJN – June 2019 monthly highlightsJune 2019Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the June issue of AJN. In our first CE, “Understanding the Complications of Sickle Cell Disease,” the authors discuss the genetic, hematologic, and clinical features of sickle cell disease, the major associated health complications, and the nursing implications of each complication. Our second CE, “Stoma and Peristomal Skin Care: A Clinical Review,” provides information about stomas and their complications for nurses who are not ostomy specialists. The authors of “Original Research: Exploring Working Relationships Between National and Expatriate RNs on Humanitarian Aid Missions: The Perspectives of Liberian Nurses,” describe a qualitative study that explored the perceptions and concerns of Liberian RNs who work for international nongovernmental organizations in Liberia. “Promoting Nurse Retention Through Career Development Planning,” the second article in a series on

This Month in AJN – May 2019 monthly highlightsMay 2019Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the May issue of AJN. In our first CE, “Work-Related Stress and Positive Thinking Among Acute Care Nurses: A Cross-Sectional Survey,” the authors share their study to evaluate acute care nurses’ use of positive thinking in managing work-related stress. Our second CE, “Assessing a Child’s Pain,” discusses the factors that can influence a child’s report of pain, describes components of a comprehensive pediatric pain assessment, and reviews appropriate pain assessment scales for children of different ages and levels of cognitive development. The authors of our next article, “Nursing and the Sustainable Development Goals: From Nightingale to Now,” explore how nurses can contextualize the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals within their daily practice and create holistic plans of care for patients, families, communities, and nations. “Leading the Effort to Promo