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Interview with Acieta Small, MSA, Director of patient care services at St. Luke’s Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, New Jersey (Continuing Education for Patient Care Technicians: A Unit-Based, RN-Led Initiative, August, 2012) Jul 27, 2012
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Clinical managing editor Karen Roush interviews Acieta Small, who discusses her implementation of a staff education program for improved patient care while she managed a med-surge unit at New York University’s large teaching facility, Langone Medical Center, in New York City. A quality of care assessment of the unit, staffed with long-term nursing attendants and RNs, found that patient care services were negatively impacted by practice issues such as attendant accuracy with vital signs, recording intake and output, and communication among the technicians and nurses. Although the RNs were involved in continuing education opportunities, technicians were not. Nurses volunteered to lead an initiative to upgrade technicians’ skills by addressing their educational needs. Both collaborated to define staff roles, which enhanced their team spirit for better patient care.

August 2012 Highlights Jul 27, 2012

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Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical managing editor Karen Roush present the highlights of the August 2012 issue of the American Journal of Nursing. This month offers two CE features: one is original research describing the experiences of adolescents in an Australian inpatient behavioral program for the treatment of anorexia and how both nurses and patients’ perceptions of the program as a metaphoric prison hinders therapeutic relationships. The second CE feature begins a three-part series exploring the push for health information technology and it uses and effects on nursing. Other features include a quality improvement project implementing CE for patient care technicians, evidence-based management of acute infectious diarrhea, a historical piece from a male nurse who graduated in 1929, the story of how Korean nurses in New England joined together to increase access to care for their community, and a profile of a nurse who will be an Olympic torch carrier. And of course there’s News, an AJN Reports on controversies around patient satisfaction surveys, Drug Watch, Journal Watch, Art of Nursing, and Reflections, “ In the News”, and more. You can listen to podcast interviews with the authors of the QI project.

July 2012 Highlights Jun 28, 2012

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Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical managing editor Karen Roush present the highlights of the July issue of the American Journal of Nursing. This month offers two CE features: one is original research exploring the barriers and facilitators to implementing and following clinical guidelines among nurses. The second CE feature focuses on the use of therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest – its uses, induction, adverse effects on nursing care. Other features include a look at commonly used dietary supplements by patients with diabetes, the use of community health workers in chronic care, especially diabetes, and the story of how an NP at a public hospital in San Francisco began a Bridge Clinic to improve transitions from hospital to primary care.

And of course there’s News, an AJN Reports on disappearance of nurses at WHO, Drug Watch, Journal Watch, Art of Nursing, and Reflections, “ In the News”, and more. You can listen to podcast interviews with David Benton, CEO of the International Council of Nurses on the lack of nurses at the WHO, and with the authors of the Bridge Clinic.

**Interview with Eliza Newbold and Michelle Schneidermann, authors of “In Our Community: The Bridge Clinic” (July 2012)** Jun 28, 2012
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Patients transitioning from hospital to outpatient primary care often have difficulty navigating the health system, making appointments, understanding their care regimens. This is especially true for those with complex needs, poor education, lack of housing and resources. NP Eliza Newbold and physician colleague Michelle Schneidermann discuss how their clinic came to be with *AJN*’s editor in chief, Shawn Kennedy and describe its impact on patient transitions.

**Interview with David Benton, CEO of the International Council of Nurses, on the lack of nurses at the World Health Organization (In the News, July 2012)** Jun 28, 2012
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According to the ICN, there were approximately 200 nurses working for the WHO in 1968; today that figure has dropped to eight. Further, the position of Chief Scientist, Nursing and Midwifery, a directorate position, has not been replaced. *AJN*’s editor in chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical managing editor Karen Roush discuss the ramifications of the diminished nursing presence at the WHO with Benton and how ICN is putting pressure on the WHO to reinstate a nursing presence.

June 2012 Highlights May 23, 2012

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Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical managing editor Karen Roush present the highlights of the June issue of the American Journal of Nursing. This month offers two CE features: one (“Managing Menopause Symptoms”) the third installment in our series on women’s health, and the other describing von Willebrand Disease, a common bleeding disorder. There are also features on interdisciplinary team training, what to do if you come under investigation by a state board of nursing, a Safety Monitor column on negative pressure wound therapy, and an article from Australia describing one hospital’s reasons for and experience pursuing Magnet accreditation. And there are columns on Drug Watch, Journal Watch, Art of Nursing, Reflections, “In the News”, and more. You can listen to podcast interviews with authors of the Viewpoint on why teens shouldn’t need consent to receive the HPV vaccine and the piece on nursing boards

**Interview with Ellen Baer, author of, “Key Ideas in Nursing’s First Century” (May 2012)** Apr 24, 2012
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*AJN*’s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy talks with author Ellen Baer about her historical article, in which she postulates that distinct periods in nursing’s early formal development were dominated by particular themes.

Interview with Marilyn H. Oermann, co-author of “Competence in CPR,” (May 2012) and with Jo Haag, Director Global Training, ECC Programs, American Heart Association and Mary Fran Hazinski, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and Clinical S Apr 24, 2012
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Interview with Marilyn H. Oermann, co-author of “Competence in CPR,” (May 2012) and with Jo Haag, Director Global Training, ECC Programs, American Heart Association and Mary Fran Hazinski, Professor, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, and Clinical Specialist, Pediatric Critical Care at Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt and Senior Science Editor for the American Heart Association . (From left: Hazinski, Oermann, Haag)

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