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Editor-in-Chief: Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN (Interim)
ISSN: 0002-936X
Online ISSN: 1538-7488
Frequency: 12 issues per year

Current Issue: February 2010 - Volume 110 - Issue 2
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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.


 
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
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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 		supp12
March 2005
State of the Science on Safe Medication Administration
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Editor's Picks

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides an important guidance statement for relief workers traveling to Haiti.

Disaster Resource Now Available.  Go to our collection Nurses Respond to Disasters for free access to articles about responding to and managing disasters.

New Podcast: interview with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Sue Hassmiller on the results of the Gallup Poll and what it means for nursing.

 Listen to audio highlights of this month's issue. Hear interviews with authors and other expert by clicking on the Podcasts tab above.
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Another obstetric practice unsupported by evidence: internal uterine contraction monitoring.
"What caught my eye was the first sentence of the paper..."
Normal blood pressure -- in 1914.
"We keep on redefining the meaning of 'normal changes related to aging.'"
Is the Florence Nightingale pledge in need of a makeover?
"I wonder if it’s time for an overhaul of the pledge. How would you revise it?"
Oh for a thimbleful of gratitude!
"...I’m sure most nurses would say they didn’t choose this career in the hope of being thanked all day long."
When competence is at odds with bedside manner.
“Dr. Mercer was as comforting as a rodeo clown….”
News Alerts
This week, the US Department of Health and Human Services released a comprehensive report on hospital preparedness and recommendations for improving response to catastrophic events.

The Lancet issued a “full retraction” of a 1998 paper by Wakefield et al that led to more than a decade of controversy over whether vaccinating children against MMR was linked to autism.

As the HIV epidemic matures, so do the children this disease infects. Ferrand and colleagues report in PLoS that, “HIV is now the single most common cause of acute admission and in-hospital death among adolescents in Harare,” Zimbabwe.

Nurses worldwide are helping nurses in Haiti through a virtual community hosted by The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, go here.
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