American Journal of Nursing
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American Journal of Nursing welcomes submissions of evidence-based clinical application papers and descriptions of best clinical practices, original research and QI reports, case studies, narratives, commentaries, and other manuscripts on a variety of clinical and professional topics. The journal also welcomes submissions for its various departments and columns, including artwork and poetry..
Reducing Sternal Wound Infection Rates in Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery with Sternotomy
American Journal of Nursing
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This quality improvement project aimed to identify opportunities for improvement in postoperative sternal incision care and to implement evidence-based methods to reduce the incidence of sternal wound infections among cardiothoracic surgery patients ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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The authors describe the process of planning, developing, executing, and evaluating the crowdsourced COVID-19 and Invasive Cryptococcal Disease Registry, and highlight the use of a project management approach to successfully implement the resulting study ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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This article, one in a series from health care performance improvement organization Press Ganey, explores the various patient experience categories that are influenced by nursing and how they connect to the human experience ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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This quality improvement project evaluated implementation of an acuity-adaptable model on a 20-bed noncritical trauma unit, examining the pre- and postimplementation metrics for throughput efficiency, resource utilization, and nursing quality indicators, as well as the model's impact on patient transfers for changes in level of care ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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This article describes a high-fidelity disaster simulation the authors developed to improve disaster management preparedness, confidence, and interdisciplinary teamwork among nursing students ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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This study explored the attitudes of Turkish nurses, nurse academics, and nursing students toward the problem of brain drain in the nursing profession and the factors associated with these attitudes ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
2M ago
This article, one in a series on clinical research by nurses, discusses the role and origins of the institutional review board, the independent research ethics committee that approves or denies research involving human subjects ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
2M ago
This quality improvement project aimed to measure perioperative hospital-acquired pressure injury (HAPI) rates in cardiothoracic surgery patients after the addition of alternating pressure overlays to a HAPI prevention protocol, and to identify common factors among those patients who developed HAPIs ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
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The authors present the framework for an alternative to the PICO question—PPCO, or problem, population, change, outcome—that provides a universal approach to question development for evidence-based practice quality improvement initiatives and for all nursing issues that need addressing ..read more
American Journal of Nursing
2M ago
This article describes a high-fidelity disaster simulation the authors developed to improve disaster management preparedness, confidence, and interdisciplinary teamwork among nursing students ..read more