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Editor-in-Chief: Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN
ISSN: 0002-936X
Online ISSN: 1538-7488
Frequency: 12 issues per year
Ranking: 29 of 95 in Nursing
Impact Factor: 1.119
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Educational Resources

Teaching with AJN is a school adoption program to help faculty provide students with cutting edge, evidence-based information, create awareness of the emerging and controversial issues confronting nursing and health care, current issues affecting nursing, and foster an ethic of lifelong learning crucial to professionals. 
Putting Patients First

Putting Patients First

Learn what it takes to provide patient-centered care through CE and webinars!

Take the online-only CE offering on the Planetree series and earn 4.6 contact hours.

FREE archived webcasts from the Webinar series based upon Planetree's “Putting Patients First” series published in AJN.
Sponsored by the American Journal of Nursing, Planetree and the Picker Institute.

How to Try This
How to Try This Series

AJN published a series of articles and videos on evidence-based geriatric assessment tools and best practices in partnership with the New York University College of Nursing’s Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing with partial support by a grant from the John A. Hartford Foundation. Called “How to Try This,” the series translates materials from the Hartford Institute’s “Try This series” into free, web-based resources for educators, students, and clinicians.

Special Supplements
supp12
March 2012
State of the Science: Prevention and Management of Osteoarthritis
supp15
November 2009
State of the Science: Transforming Care at the Bedside: Paving the Way for Change
supp15
September 2008
State of the Science: Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregivers
supp14
June 2007
State of the Science on Diabetes Self-Management: Strategies for Nursing
supp13
March 2006
State of the Science on Nursing Approaches to Managing Late and Long-Term Sequel of Cancer and Cancer Treatment

 

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Editor's Choice

AJN Reports: Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Where Are We Now

In honor of Memorial Day: read From the AJN Archives

Listen to audio highlights of this month's issue and interviews with authors and experts by clicking on the Podcasts/Videos tab above.

On the Blog

 JOIN THE CONVERSATION ON
Off the Charts.

Dispatch from Melbourne: A Significant Loss for International Council of Nurses?
“I began as a fairly solitary walker, but was soon joined by other walkers, mostly women, all . . . walking purposefully in the same direction.”

Where Medicine Leaves Off
“’Long before we see the face, we hear the crying.’”

Angelina, Florence, End-of Life Care, More: A Nursing Roundup
“ . . . it’s hard not to admire the strength it takes to see things in such a positive light.”

Highlights & Extras

NEW!  Earn 3.3 contact hours for AJN’s series, Protecting Your License

NEW! AJN’s Evidence Based Practice series now a downloadable ebook.

The IOM Report on the Future of Nursing – resource page.

Listen to audio highlights of this month's issue and interviews with authors and experts by clicking on Podcasts under Media tab above.

We Want to See You at Work!

AJN seeks (high-quality or professional-quality, minimum hi-res 300dpi) compelling photos of nurses at work in any setting. Photos must not be staged or published elsewhere, and releases are required for those that we select. AJN will pay the prevailing rate for any photos we use. Please submit to alison.bulman@wolterskluwer.com.

“PRACTICING WITH AJN”

Want to foster evidence-based practice at your hospital? Adopt AJN for your staff! Practicing with AJN will include journal clubs, writing workshop, CE opportunities. For more information, contact alison.bulman@wolterskluwer.com.