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College Students: Have Fun, But Stay Safe 26 Aug 2013 | 10:39 pm
Photo by andlun1, via Flickr. By Amy M. Collins, editor This weekend I was lounging at the community pool where I live when an elderly woman next to me received a call on her cell phone and had a lo...
The End of a Blogging Era? 23 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor From August 2005 until August 2013, Kim McCallister ran a blog called Emergiblog, one of the first nursing blogs to gain a certain prominence among nurses...
Differentiating Nurse Burnout From Boredom 22 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology. Terrain and Vision, mixed media collage on paper by jparadisi 2013 Nurses frequ...
The Heart of a Nurse 14 Aug 2013 | 05:55 pm
By Diane Stonechipher, BSN, RN. The author lives in Texas. Her forthcoming Viewpoint essay in the October issue of AJN, “The Old Becomes New,” will consider aspects of nursing that may be obscured or ...
‘Incompatible With Life’ 12 Aug 2013 | 08:42 pm
Shirley Phillips has a doctorate in physical therapy and currently works for a federally funded research and development program studying human performance in aviation. She was an airline pilot prior ...
House of Death, House of Life: Reflections of a Hospice Volunteer 9 Aug 2013 | 10:20 pm
Perhaps the fundamental requirement for hospice volunteers is an open mind. Assumptions and first impressions rarely predict reality. I met a soft-spoken woman who was once a nun, then later became a ...
Nursing Editors Talking Shop in Ireland 7 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Seaside at Lahinch Last week I was in Cork to attend the annual meeting of the International Academy of Nursing Editors, also known as INANE (yes, I kno...
Nursing Blogs Roundup: Some Veteran Voices and Some Lively New Ones 6 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor Blogging – What Jolly Fun!/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com, via Flickr Creative Commons Here are some new or newish posts of note on various nursing blogs...
Trailblazing: The Value of Positive Deviance in Nursing 1 Aug 2013 | 09:38 pm
Illustration by Janet Hamlin. By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor The word deviant tends to have a negative connotation, suggesting something aberrant or harmful. But deviance simply means a departur...
AJN’s August Issue: Positive Deviance, Vital Sign Alert Systems, Using Focus Groups, Teaching Nursing Abroad, More 29 Jul 2013 | 08:22 pm
AJN‘s August issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss. Sometimes rules are meant to be broken in order to serve the greater good. This month’s CE feature “Explor...
