Off the Charts
Off the Charts is the blog of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN). Posts by AJN editors and contributing editors, policy leaders, patients, and working nurses highlight what’s most interesting, troubling, important, and provocative in nursing and health care.
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Feb 08, 12 08:00AMWe’d already guessed there was a problem at the health post—we hadn’t received the last several monthly statistical reports. As a Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Republi c...
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Feb 06, 12 07:36AMBy Amy M. Collins, associate editor As I watch my grandmother navigate the murky waters of her Alzheimer’s disease, it continues to surprise me that parts of her brain work at warp speed, while other...
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Feb 03, 12 07:37AMAccording to Stateline.org (a news site of the nonprofit Pew Center on the States), with the Super Bowl taking place this Sunday in Indianapolis, the state of Indiana has decided to toughen up its hum an...
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Feb 02, 12 06:59AMBy Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Amanda Trujillo, MSN, RN, is a nurse who until recently worked at Banner Del Webb Hospital in Sun City, Arizona, until she was fired for, as she claims, just doin g...
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Feb 01, 12 06:07AMBy Sylvia Foley, AJN senior editor In January 2009 an independent community hospital in Massachusetts switched from using older, outmoded IV pumps to using “smart” pumps—pumps that h ave...
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Jan 30, 12 08:38AMElizabeth R. Plumer, PhD, JD, is a biochemist and intellectual property attorney. She lives in Saco, ME. When an MRI revealed that my four-year-old daughter’s brain cancer had returned, I took t he...
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Jan 26, 12 07:36AMBy Marcy Phipps, RN, a regular contributor to this blog. Her essay, “The Soul on the Head of a Pin,” was published in the May 2010 issue of AJN. I’ve begun volunteering at a local fr ee...
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Jan 23, 12 08:59AMBy Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief When I had a recent medical emergency, I went to the local community hospital near my home in northern New Jersey. I had been there before for outpatient testing or...
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Jan 20, 12 08:27AMFrom its earliest beginnings, nursing has embraced a holistic view of health. What we eat, the environments in which we work and live, our social relationships—all these influence health. Yet, a s...
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Jan 17, 12 09:50AMBy ArtsieApsie, via Flickr Fierce Healthcare reports this week on the latest findings about hospital room noise: ”hospital rooms can be as noisy as chainsaws, according to a new study [subs cription...
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