In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Susan O’Hara, PhD, MPH, RN, BA, EDAC, FNIHD, discusses the role of nurses in design and the impact they make on patient care and nurse safety.

In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Kerry A. Milner, DNSc, APRN, FNP-BC, EBP-C, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, PhD, RN, EBP-C, FNAP, FAAN discuss the role of evidence-based decision making in nursing education and patient care.

Milner and Fineout-Overholt share details on AJN’s new Evidence-Based Decision Making series, and the first article in the series, “Cultivating an Evidence-Based Decision-Making Mindset,” which can be found in the February issue and online at https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2024/02000/cultivating_an_evidence_based_decision_making.20.aspx.

Below is the article’s full list of authors:

Kerry A. Milner is a professor in the Davis and Henley College of Nursing at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Deana Hays is an associate professor at Oakland University in Rochester, MI. Susan Farus-Brown is an associate professor at the Ohio University School of Nursing in Athens. Mary C. Zonsius is an associate professor at the Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago. Ellen Fineout-Overholt is national senior director, Evidence-Based Practice & Implementation Science, at Ascension in St. Louis. Contact author: Kerry A. Milner, [email protected].

NP, entrepreneur, and professor, Gabrielle Abelard, DNP, PMHNP, PMHCNS-BC, APRN, FNAP, FAAN, joins The AJN Podcast and shares her business experience, wisdom, and insight on what APRNs need to know and do before opening their own practice.

Some questions to think about:

1. What’s your “brand”?
2. How will you choose your practice name?
3. Which geographical location would you choose?
4. Will you go into business alone or take on partners?
5. Will you take health insurance or not?
6. What is your timeline?

And many more!

Recommended books:

Nurse Practitioner's Business Practice and Legal Guide by Carolyn Buppert, JD, MS

The Doctor of Nursing Practice: A Guidebook for Role Development and Professional Issues by Lisa Astalos Chism, DNP, APRN, NCMP, FAANP

NP Notes: Nurse Practitioner's Clinical Pocket Guide by Ruth McCaffrey, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC, GNP-BC, FAANP, and Humberto Reinoso, PhD, FNP-BC, ENP-BC

In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Kathleen Russell-Babin, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, ACNS-BC, vice president of professional practice at Inova Health System in Falls Church, VA, discusses implementation science (IS). Russell-Babin is the lead author of the first article in a new series for AJN, Applying Implementation Science. The article describes how a multisite health care organization developed a systemwide nurse-led IS Specialist program within a shared governance model. Russell-Babin shared, “The series will take each of our first five projects across our health care system and show concretely how we used our 10-step process or toolkit. It will help readers to visualize the realities of the methods.”

In a discussion after the episode was recorded, she added, “This process is not a quick fix. It is systematic and takes time. Depending on the topic, sometimes the barriers are more than you expect. But as Weiner and colleagues wrote, partial implementation gets partial results and so staying with the process and using mapped strategies is worth the effort.”

The article is open access and can be found here: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2023/12000/a_nurse_led_implementation_science_specialist.22.aspx.

Follow us through the series and learn how your organization can use implementation science to promote evidence-based practice and improve patient care.

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In this episode of The AJN Podcast, Elizabeth A. Ayello, PhD, MS, RN, CWON, FAAN, co-editor of Advances in Skin and Wound Care, discusses the role of the direct care nurse in wound and ostomy care. Listen as she shares valuable information and resources on the topic. Links to resources mentioned in the podcast are available below.

Nursing 2023 article: https://journals.lww.com/nursing/fulltext/2023/08000/skin_and_wound_care_survey__2019_results.8.aspx

Guidelines:

EPUAP: https://www.epuap.org   

NPIAP: https://npiap.com

PPIAP: https://pppia.org  

International Skin Tear Advisory Panel (ISTAP): https://www.skintears.org

AJN article: Skin Assessment in Patients with Dark Skin Tone: https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/fulltext/2023/03000/skin_assessment_in_patients_with_dark_skin_tone.20.aspx

Wound care skin tone article: https://journals.lww.com/aswcjournal/fulltext/2023/10000/using_technology_to_detect_erythema_across_skin.4.aspx

A stakeholder is anyone who has interest in pressure ulcers/injuries who wishes to provide input into the International PI Guideline. Check out this link: https://internationalguideline.com/stakeholders

Brigitte Sager, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C joins AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa to discuss the nurse’s role in functional medicine.

AJN senior clinical editor, Christine Moffa, speaks with AACN president Amanda Bettencourt and AACN president -elect Terry Davis, about challenges in nursing and AACN’s efforts to address these issues.

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with Bernadette ‘Candy’ Capili about her articles, “Improving the Validity of Causal Inferences in Observational Studies” and “Efficacy Randomized Controlled Trials”. These articles are the 13th and 14th installments in a series on clinical research by nurses, “Nursing Research, Step by Step.”

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with Renee Thompson DNP, RN, FAAN, CSP about workplace bullying and incivility. Dr. Thompson shares practical advice on what to do when this happens to you.

Released on April 26, 2023

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with ANA President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy about her journey to becoming president of the ANA, issues nurses are facing, and how the ANA plans to address these issues.

Released on April 5, 2023

AJN senior clinical editor Christine Moffa speaks with Heather M. Young and Rita B. Choula about their guest editorial, which discusses nurses’ key role in supporting family caregivers.