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What Nurses Told Us About How They Relax
by nugunslinger/ via flickr We recently posed the following question on AJN’s Twitter page: “RNs: we want to know: how do you relax?” Some of the answers are below. Exercise is one biggie, at least...
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A Weekend With Florence In London
Editor’s note: The two entries below, written on Saturday and Sunday in London, are the latest in a series of posts by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Senior Adviser for Nursing, Susan Hassmiller,...
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Promoting Awareness of Patient-Centered Care
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN interim editor-in-chief October is, among other things, patient-centered care awareness month. At AJN, we’ve been focusing on patient-centered care for some time, most recently by...
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Feeling Just Beachy
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Last week I wrote a post here about the feeling of well-being—what it is, how it’s measured, and whether or not nurses often experience it. I guess writing the...
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The Sacraments of Nursing
At the center of Sister Thecla’s demonstrations was an old manikin that lived all its days on the hospital bed at the front of the classroom. I can still see its chipped, painted face—the trust in the...
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Compassion for Those Among Us: Recent Poems in ‘Art of Nursing’
By Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor Faded rose texture, by Calsidyrose via Flickr In Carolyn Scarbrough’s poem “A Rose By Any Other Name” (Art of Nursing, August), a nurse sees an “opaque rose,...
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‘Spread the Word, Not the Germs’– Infection Control During Religious Gatherings
By Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Last week there was a disconcerting report from the Associated Press about a Catholic clergyman in North Dakota who may have inadvertently exposed many...
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Giving Thanks for Meaning in a Nonclinical Setting
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology. The illustration of this post is by the author. Some Thanksgiving seasons, it...
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Whose Child Is This?
And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidence and no doubt. I had seen birth and death . . ....
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Bed Bath: The First Day of the Rest of Her Life
“Bed Bath,” the January Reflections column by pediatric nurse practitioner Kathleen Hughes, is a description of giving a first bed bath as a nurse after many years working in other professions. It’s...
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At the Intersection of Hospice and Obstetrics, a True Test of...
By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor Renee Noble with her newborn daughter, Violet. Photo by Heidi Ricks. We’d like to draw attention to a particularly frank and thought-provoking article in the October...
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Storytelling as a Vital Source of Knowledge and Connection in Nursing
I’m not saying that nurses should abandon the quantitative and evidence-based practices that we know have saved many lives. But we should also seek to balance and contextualize this approach through...
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A Program of Mindfulness Practice for Nurses at a Boston Cancer Center
By Jacob Molyneux, senior editor The Thea and James Stoneman Healing Garden at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a source of tranquility and relaxation for nurses, patients, and families. Photo by...
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The Challenge of Bearing Witness to Patient and Family Suffering
“How do I honor this pain so that it teaches and blesses and does not destroy?” By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor Illustration by Neil Brennan. All rights reserved. This month’s Reflections essay...
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‘An Immutably Personal Process’: A Hospice Nurse Contemplates Uncontrol
Megen Duffy, RN, BSN, CEN, currently works in hospice case management. She writes AJN’s iNurse column, which focuses on technology and nursing. by mark ahsmann/ wikimedia commons I started my day the...
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Unexplained Deathbed Phenomena: Honoring Patient and Family Experience
By Betsy Todd, MPH, RN, CIC, AJN clinical editor luke andrew scowen/flickr creative commons When my dad died, a special little travel clock that he’d given me years before stopped working. It restarted...
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