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Acute/Critical Care

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   5/24/2021
  • Contains:  23 items
This collection contains research, clinical reviews and columns and QI reports dealing with acute care, critical care and emergency topics. Related content that may be of interest: see the collection on Responding to Disaster.
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Art of Nursing

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/26/2021
  • Contains:  40 items
This collection offers 20 works by visual artists and poets from AJN’s Art of Nursing page, chosen by our editors. (Note: For best view, you will need to click through to the PDF.) Please note that the artists retain copyright for these works.

Back to Basics

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/15/2021
  • Contains:  3 items
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Case Reports

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   12/16/2020
  • Contains:  5 items
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Continuing Education

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   5/20/2021
  • Contains:  195 items

CE activities are available for getting online credit through NursingCenter.com CEConnection. CEConnection has high quality CE offerings that meet your license renewal needs and recertification requirements. Click the title links to read the articles, then the red CE icons to take the tests.

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Disaster and Emergency Preparedness

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  15 items
Many nurses are volunteering their services to assist the residents of Haiti following the earthquake. The magnitude of the damages and injuries will require a sustained disaster relief effort. Here we provide information nurses should know if they are considering participating in the effort. To facilitate nurses preparing to volunteer, we have made all articles open access. (Editor's note: older articles may be available only as PDFs.)

Environmental Health and Issues

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/26/2021
  • Contains:  19 items
Environmental health intersects with the work of nursing in every setting. Issues addressed in this collection include air pollution, tainted water, industrial waste, carbon emissions, fracking, oil spills, and climate change. These articles provide the evidence to help nurses assess risk to individual patients and to our communities.
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Ethics

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   8/31/2020
  • Contains:  22 items
Over the years, AJN has documented nursing’s development of a Code of Ethics, from the first draft under consideration by the professional association to issues nurses struggle with today in a variety of work settings. Here are some selections, including the Ethics column in recent years.
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Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   12/16/2020
  • Contains:  17 items
This collection of articles was authored by faculty from the Arizona State University College of Nursing and Health Innovation's Center for the Advancement of Evidence-Based Practice. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a problem-solving approach to the delivery of health care that integrates the best evidence from studies and patient care data with clinician expertise and patient preferences and values. When delivered in a context of caring and in a supportive organizational culture, the highest quality of care and best patient outcomes can be achieved.

The purpose of this series is to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to implement EBP consistently, one step at a time. Articles appeared every two months to allow time for staff to incorporate information as they worked toward implementing EBP at their institutions.


This series has received the Nursing Media Award for Print from Sigma Theta Tau International Awards for Nursing Excellence.

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Evidence-Based Practice, Part 1: Developing and Searching the Clinical Question

Evidence-Based Practice, Part II: Critical Appraisal of the Evidence

Evidence-Based Practice, Part III: Implementation

Evidence-Based Practice, Part IV: Disseminating the Evidence and Sustaining the Change

Holistic Nursing

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  5 items
This series on holistic nursing is a practice that draws on nursing knowledge, theories, expertise and intuition to guide nurses in becoming therapeutic partners with people in their care, the interconnectedness of body, mind, emotion, spirit, social/cultural, relationship, context, and environment.
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In The Community

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   3/26/2020
  • Contains:  6 items
Articles about community health events and initiatives.

Infectious Disease

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  18 items
From flu to Coccidioidomycosis, this collection includes articles from our Emerging Infections column, covering infectious diseases in community and hospital settings. Articles include clinical review, transmission and management and guideline reports.
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Influenza Classics from the AJN Archives

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  20 items
Influenza Classics from the AJN Archives From Spanish flu to Hong Kong flu to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza (swine flu), AJN has provided nurses with clinical information as well as with personal experiences of those who provided care to patients during influenza outbreaks. Here we present important articles that document the scientific thinking of the time on influenza prevention, transmission, and patient care practices. Many articles give detailed accounts of the experiences of nurses who provided care during the early years of the 20th century, offering insight into the arduous work of nurses at that time. (Editor's note: older articles are available only as PDFs. If you're not an AJN subscriber, you may not be able to access all articles.) The following articles are open access:
  • Editorial Comment: The Epidemic of Influenza
    • AJN19(2):83-5, November 1918.
  • Letters to the Editor: Experiences During the Influenza Epidemic G.R., North Dakota AJN. 19(3):203-4, December 1918.
  • Influenza -1918 : Reliving the Great Epidemic Dorothy Deming AJN. 57(10):1308-1309, October 1957.
  • Questions and Answers on Pandemic Influenza Victoria J. Davey AJN. 107(7): 50-56, July 2007.
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International Topics

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  3 items
This column chronicles the author's experience teaching abroad this past year.

Legal Clinic

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   4/22/2021
  • Contains:  20 items
These articles are written by nurse and attorney Edie Brous, JD, MS, MPH, RN, AJN’s contributing editor for legal issues. Topics range from legal cases of interest and licensure issues to social media use and workplace violence.

Mental Health

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   5/24/2021
  • Contains:  9 items
This collection includes articles on drug therapy, mental health issues in particular populations, and even an article on climate change and mental health.
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Military and Veterans Health Care

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  9 items
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New to Nursing

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   11/17/2020
  • Contains:  7 items
While the articles in this collection were written primarily for nurses who are just beginning their careers, experienced nurses will also appreciate these helpful and practical ideas for improving our skills in delegating, giving/getting report, or participating in codes.

Nursing Research, Step By Step

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nurisng
  • Updated:   5/20/2021
  • Contains:  4 items
The series is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation. The articles are accompanied by a podcast offering more insight and context from the author.

Nursing Resources

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/29/2021
  • Contains:  11 items
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Patient Safety

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/29/2021
  • Contains:  14 items
“Patient safety” encompasses a wide variety of specific issues as well as overall approaches and considerations. This collection illustrates some of the many facets of the topic, with articles ranging from common safety issues (falls, opioids, driving safely as we age) to broader perspectives on safety such as a historical overview of nurses’ evolving role in patient safety, and a comparison of nurse perceptions of a patient’s level of risk vs. risks as determined via electronic algorithm.
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Patient Safety-Safety Monitor

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   1/29/2021
  • Contains:  12 items
In an effort to reduce and eliminate errors, Pennsylvania’s Patient Safety Authority (http://patientsafety.pa.gov/) collects and analyzes data on serious events (including HAIs) occurring in hospitals, ambulatory surgery facilities, birthing centers, and abortion facilities. Based on these analyses, problems are identified and recommendations are made for changes in practice. The articles in this collection were written by their staff in order to bring these data and recommendations to AJN readers.

Policy and Politics

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/25/2021
  • Contains:  5 items

Professional Development, Leadership and Scholarship

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   10/23/2020
  • Contains:  19 items
This collection focuses on professional development and leadership development. It includes a series on leadership coordinated by the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE;www.aone.org), highlighting topics of interest to nurse managers and emerging nurse leaders. The AONE provides leadership, professional development, advocacy, and research to advance nursing practice and patient care, promote nursing leadership excellence, and shape public policy for health care.

Professional Partners Supporting Diverse Family Caregivers Across Settings

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  3 items
This three-part article-video series builds on the work addressed in AJN’s September 2008 State of the Science report, Professional Partners Supporting Family Caregivers. It is part of a joint initiative, “Professional Partners Supporting Diverse Family Caregivers Across Settings”, and was funded by the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation in collaboration with the AARP Foundation.

This initiative is in partnership with NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders), a national organization designed to help hospitals improve the care of older adults. NICHE is a program of The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing funded in part with generous support from Atlantic Philanthropies and The John A. Hartford Foundation. For more information visit www.nicheprogram.org.

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Profiles

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   5/20/2021
  • Contains:  50 items
Read about the diverse ways in which nurses contribute their unique leadership, compassion, and talent to the profession, enhancing patient care directly or through policy, research or education. From a New York visiting nurse to a hospital senior vice president and chief nursing officer – nurses in many settings are doing important work and making a difference. We also profile those nurses who have been designated as “Edgerunner” by the American Academy of Nursing.

Putting Patients First – The Planetree Collection

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  7 items
This series of articles beginning in March 2009 focuses on practices that are patient-centered and are authored by nurses at Planetree facilities which are “committed to improving medical care from the patient’s perspective.”

Follow this link for information on a FREE series of webinars, Putting Patients First, based on this series and sponsored by AJN, Planetree and Picker Institute.


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QI: Quality Improvement

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   4/22/2021
  • Contains:  50 items
This collection contains articles on quality improvement projects. Most follow the Standards for Quality Improvement Reporting (SQUIRE) guidelines for quality improvement reports (available at www.squire-statement.org). These articles should provide models and sufficient detail for other institutions and organizations to replicate the projects. Please let us know if you used them as a basis for QI projects in your facility.

Research

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   5/20/2021
  • Contains:  40 items
Original research by nurses, including qualitative and quantitative studies and systematic reviews on a wide variety of clinical topics. This collection also includes articles to guide readers in performing or understanding research.
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Social Media and Information Technology

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  8 items
For those of us who are not as adept as younger generations are in the digital and online worlds, these articles discuss topics ranging from EHR-related issues to different mobile devices to the safe use of various social media platforms.

Special Supplements

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  8 items
Most of these supplements include more than a dozen articles. Supplement topics range from cancer survivorship to TCAB (transforming care at the bedside) to osteoarthritis, diabetes, and multimodal analgesia.
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Family Caregivers

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   4/22/2021
  • Contains:  18 items
This series of articles won the 2018 ASHPE Bronze Award for Best Special Supplement. They were written to help nurses provide family caregivers with tools to manage their loved one’s health care at home. Produced in cooperation with the AARP Public Policy Institute, each article includes an informational tear sheet and links to educational videos for caregivers. Two of these articles are approved for CE credit: http://links.lww.com/AJN/A119 (safe mobility, wound care) http://links.lww.com/AJN/A120 (medication administration)

Systematic Reviews Step by Step

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  6 items

This series on the systematic review from the Joanna Briggs Institute, an international collaborative supporting evidence-based practice in nursing, medicine, and allied health fields, shows nurses how to conduct a systematic review—one step at a time.

Teaching For Practice

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  14 items
This quarterly series on the roles of adjunct clinical faculty and preceptors, who teach nursing students to apply knowledge in clinical setting. Topics will include the preparation of clinical instructors and preceptors for these roles, the student evaluation process, and overcoming challenges that can come with teaching in the clinical field and with adjunct teaching.

Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   12/16/2020
  • Contains:  12 items
This collection of articles from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston describes one general medical unit's experiences with Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB). An initiative begun by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, TCAB was developed as a way to improve care on medical-surgical units, patients' and family members' experience of care, and teamwork among care team members, and to increase nurses' satisfaction and retention. The TCAB philosophy engages all care leaders, but empowers bedside nurses to generate ideas and solutions for change. Mass General is one of 68 hospitals participating in a two-year TCAB initiative led by the American Organization of Nurse Executives and funded by a grant from the RWJF.

Uniforms (Nursing)

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  12 items
What nurses wear, when they wear it and what it symbolizes have been discussed in the pages of AJN throughout the years. Early editorials declare that wearing the uniform in the street, “is unprofessional because it advertises the occupation of the wearer and makes her conspicuous”. In the 1950s, one commentator said, “What a feeling of security, peace and confidence is given a patient when a smiling woman in white approaches his bedside or attends his needs.” In this collection, we provide some early articles documenting practices and attitudes as well as later articles providing some historical context. (Editor's note: older articles are available only as PDFs. If you're not an AJN subscriber, you may not be able to access all articles.) The following articles are open access:
  • Editorial Comment: Nurses’ Uniforms Worn in the Street
    • AJN6(6): 353-354, March 1906.
  • United States Tax Court rules that nurses may deduct the cost of uniforms for federal income tax purposes. D.B. Chase. AJN. 43(9):823-824, September 1943.
  • Image, Function, and Style: A History of the Nursing Uniform Houweling, Lynn. AJN. 104(4):40-48, April 2004.
  • An Experiment in White: One Nurse's Attempt to Identify a Profession by Uniform Burn, Jeri. AJN. 106(3):64A-64C, March 2006.

Women's Health

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  9 items
Since our articles on women's health were very popular, we’ve made accessing them more convenient for you with this collection. Articles range from issues around emergency contraception to a series on health issues of post-menopausal women.
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Writing Resources

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nursing
  • Updated:   2/4/2020
  • Contains:  4 items
This series won the 2018 ASHPE gold award for best feature article series. These four articles take nurses step by step through the writing process: How to develop your writing abilities; the structure of a good manuscript; practical tips for writing up research, QI, clinical reviews, literature reviews, articles on professional issues or health policy, and personal narratives; and navigating the publishing process.

Geriatric Nursing

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nurisng
  • Updated:   4/27/2021
  • Contains:  47 items
Our geriatric nursing collection contains articles related to caring for the older adult population. Included in this collection are two past series that appeared in AJN, see below for more details on these.
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Palliative Care

  • Creator:   American Journal of Nurisng
  • Updated:   4/21/2021
  • Contains:  25 items
These articles are part of a series on palliative care developed in collaboration with the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. The HPNA aims to guide nurses in preventing and relieving suffering and in giving the best possible care to patients and families, regardless of the stage of disease or the need for other therapies. The HPNA offers education, certification, advocacy, leadership, and research.
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