This month’s cover photo shows a pediatric patient, Levi Drager, on ECMO at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. The photo was taken shortly after he became the hospital’s first pediatric patient to take steps while on ECMO. See our “On the Cover” column for more.
The November issue of AJN is now live.
This month’s CE, “Nursing Roles in Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation,” discusses the multiple roles of ECMO nurses, the various ECMO delivery care models, and the potential cost savings of an RN ECMO specialist staffing model—and introduces the novel role of the ECMO lead. (Open Access)
“Given that healthy work environments both foster high-quality patient care and allow nurses to thrive, increased efforts to understand the work experiences of ethnic minority nurses are vital,” write Nia M. Martin and colleagues in their Original Research article, “Exploring Black Nurses’ Perceptions of Workplace Safety and Personal Health.” Learn about their study findings here. (Open Access)
“Implementing a Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injury Prevention Bundle in Critical Care,” the third article in our Applying Implementation Science (IS) series, describes how a nurse-led IS team at a multisite health system used IS concepts, methods, and tools to implement a HAPI prevention bundle on six critical care units, with the aim of decreasing HAPI incidence.
Venous thromboembolism is a leading preventable cause of death in hospitalized patients. The authors of “Evaluation of a Novel Mechanical Compression Device” conducted a quality improvement project that compared the use of a novel mechanical compression device and a standard intermittent pneumatic compression device for VTE prevention. (Open Access)
See also the extensive health care news sections, the Drug Watch and Journal Watch sections, an AJN Reports on hospital cyberattacks, a Specialty Spotlight on genomic nursing, and more.
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