American Journal of NursingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108260.50715.11
Karen Roush
{"title":"News Brief: Alcohol-related deaths in the United States doubled from 1999 to 2020.","authors":"Karen Roush","doi":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108260.50715.11","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108260.50715.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Presurgical Scan.","authors":"Elisa A Garza","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000026","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Care Transport Nursing.","authors":"Jason C Vest","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000028","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000028","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transporting critically ill patients while providing ICU-level care.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"47"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American Journal of NursingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108272.36989.c8
Karen Roush
{"title":"Pandemics Are a Continuing Danger, Warns Monitoring Board.","authors":"Karen Roush","doi":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108272.36989.c8","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108272.36989.c8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses are key to educating the public and mitigating disease spread.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shweta Gore, Karen Mattie, Kara Schworm, Sheila Murphy, Carolyn Googins, Lisa Caruso, Mary Slavin, Daniel Young
{"title":"Implementing an Activity and Mobility Promotion Approach to Improve Patient Mobility.","authors":"Shweta Gore, Karen Mattie, Kara Schworm, Sheila Murphy, Carolyn Googins, Lisa Caruso, Mary Slavin, Daniel Young","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000039","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000039","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>A decline in patient mobility is a common occurrence following hospital admission, even with short, uncomplicated stays. Low mobility is known to result in a variety of adverse outcomes, including functional decline, especially for the vulnerable older population.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Strategies to promote mobility in hospitalized patients are crucial to improving outcomes and reducing associated costs. The aim of this quality improvement project was to implement the Johns Hopkins Activity and Mobility Promotion (JH-AMP) program at a large safety-net hospital, assess the feasibility of implementing this program, and examine the preliminary impact of the program on patient mobility.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A pre- and postimplementation design was used on medical and surgical units, and in ICUs. The JH-AMP program was implemented using eight key strategies based on the Translating Research into Practice implementation science framework. The intervention was designed to provide all patients with a daily mobility goal during their stay in the hospital and ensure that frontline staff utilized this goal as a metric to move patients every day. Measures of mobility capacity and performance, the Activity Measure for Post-Acute Care \"6-Clicks\" Short Form (AM-PAC) and the Johns Hopkins Highest Level of Mobility (JH-HLM) scale, were integrated into the electronic health record to facilitate generation of a mobility goal. An iterative process was used to improve the thematic analysis of qualitative focus group discussions. Within-group comparisons of JH-HLM scores were performed for all units before and after implementation of the JH-AMP program using Mann-Whitney U tests.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Following program implementation, the frequency of patients scoring 4 (transfer to a chair) or higher on the JH-HLM scale was significantly greater compared to baseline (z = 2.02, P = 0.043). Similarly, all units demonstrated a significant decrease in the proportion of patients scoring 1 (lying in bed) compared to baseline (z = 2.03, P = 0.031).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Large-scale, hospital-wide implementation of an activity and mobility promotion program is feasible when performed systematically and can significantly reduce hospital immobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"48-55"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
American Journal of NursingPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2025-02-20DOI: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108300.94648.aa
Diane S Aschenbrenner
{"title":"ISMP warns of risk of injury with prefilled syringes packaged without needle safety guards.","authors":"Diane S Aschenbrenner","doi":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108300.94648.aa","DOIUrl":"10.1097/01.NAJ.0001108300.94648.aa","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"19"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sickle cell treatment removed from market.","authors":"Diane S Aschenbrenner","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000024","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronotype and Nursing Shift Work.","authors":"Yogita Kalra","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000034","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000034","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relief of finding an explanation for night shift exhaustion.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"64"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacqueline Christianson, Christine Schindler, Lisa Grabert
{"title":"To Address the Nursing Faculty Shortage, Start with the Salary Gap.","authors":"Jacqueline Christianson, Christine Schindler, Lisa Grabert","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000032","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000032","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nurses must advocate with policymakers for meaningful change.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medicare Advantage Plans.","authors":"Nicole Fauteux","doi":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000023","DOIUrl":"10.1097/AJN.0000000000000023","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A gamble for providers and patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":7622,"journal":{"name":"American Journal of Nursing","volume":"125 3","pages":"16-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}