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Patient and Family Cell Phone Use Can Seem Intrusive, Until It’s Not
Oh no, here comes another Dad with a Bluetooth. My colleague and I roll our eyes at each other in frustration. Another self-important junior executive who must be in touch with everyone in the world...
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Poll: What Can We Actually Do About Hospital Room Noise?
By 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 [subscription...
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A Breath of Fresh Air, Relatively Speaking
By Tara Duffy, RN. Tara is an RN at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY, where she works in the Wilmont Cancer Center. I hear it, taste it, smell the construction to my left as I walk into the...
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Scrubs on the Street: Big Concern?
This colorized 2005 scanning electron micrograph (SEM) depicted numerous clumps of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, commonly referred to by the acronym, MRSA; Magnified 2390x....
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Family Pet Visitation: A Nurse-Led Project at One Illinois Hospital
We hear a lot about therapy dogs that are specially trained to visit patients in the hospital. But I for one would want to see not just any dog but my own dog, if I were gravely ill and in the...
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The Not Good Nurse – Some Dark Holiday Reading
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Having some down time over the holidays can be a good chance to catch up on some reading. Because so much of my work entails reading manuscripts submitted to AJN...
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‘A New Antibiotic’: What Restores a Patient’s Will to Recover?
Illustration by Pat Kinsella. All rights reserved. A little bit of levity when writing of serious topics can be good medicine. This month’s Reflections essay, “A New Antibiotic,” reminds us of how...
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