The AJN Podcast

View Top 200 Chart

Back to Rankings Page

Science & Medicine
**The AJN Podcast**

News, views, and interviews of interest to the nursing community.

Latest Episodes:

Two songs by Liyana Jul 30, 2009

Show notes

Listen to two songs Liyana performed at the Roxbury Arts Center in Roxbury, New York.

July 2009 Highlights Jun 23, 2009

Show notes

Editorial director Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Christine Moffa discuss the highlights of the July issue of AJN. A must read is Diana Mason's parting editorial, detailing her work at AJN. There are two CE articles: a report on original research surveying medical residents perceive their interactions with nurses, and Part 1 of a two-part article on post-breast cancer lymphedema. Other features include Street Nursing, a photo essay on an outreach program in British Columbia to prevent HIV and sexually transmitted diseases; an update on what we know about the H1N1 Influenza A virus; articles on an innovative health program for farmworkers and how neighborhood environments contribute to obesity; and the second part of a two part article on conflict in the workplace. Featured podcasts include interviews with authors Dana Weintraub (Original Research), Fiona Gold (Street Nursing), and Anne Fowler (Art of Nursing).

Interview with Dana Weinberg Jun 23, 2009

Show notes

AJN editor-in-chief emeritus Diana Mason talks with Dana Weinberg, assistant professor of sociology at Queens College in Flushing, NY, and lead author of the July 2009 qualitative study “‘It Depends’: Medical Residents’ Perspectives on Working with Nurses.” Weinberg discusses some of the key findings and how the nursing community should respond.

Interview with Fiona Gold Jun 23, 2009

Show notes

AJN editor-in-chief emeritus Diana Mason interviews Fiona Gold, a nurse who works with the Outreach/Street Nursing Program of the British Columbia for Disease Control. The program is featured in a photoessay by Gold and filmmaker Nettie Wild in the July 2009 issue of AJN. Gold talks about the documentary and some of the controversy surrounding the program.

June 2009 Highlights May 29, 2009

Show notes

Editor-in-chief Diana Mason presents the highlights of the June issue of AJN. There are two featured CE articles: a comprehensive article on pulse oximetry guidelines, and a case study on asphyxia due to inspissated secretions, along with a review of poor oral hygiene in long-term care. Other features include a photo essay on Malawi, Africa, including an audio interview with the photojournalist Christine Gorman, and news reports on retail clinics appealing to the underinsured, school nurses responding to the influenza A (H1N1) outbreak, new studies on reproductive cancer screening, and more.

Poetry Reading: "Sickness" May 29, 2009

Show notes

Atar Hadari reads his poem “Sickness.”

Interview with Rowaida Al-Maaitah May 29, 2009

Show notes

Rowaida Al-Maaitah, incoming chairperson of the World Health Organization’s Global Advisory Group on Nursing and Midwifery (GAGNM).

Interview with Kerry Paige Nesseler May 29, 2009

Show notes

Assistant surgeon general Kerry Paige Nesseler, the director of the Office of International Health Affairs in the Health Resources and Service Administration and an official observer at the GAGNM.

Interview with Christine Gorman May 29, 2009

Show notes

Christine Gorman speaks with senior editor James Stubenrauch and editor-in-chief Diana Mason about the work of nurses in the African country of Malawi.

Diane Carlson Evans: “Black Man” May 01, 2009

Show notes

No description available