April 2019 Highlights

Published: March 21, 2019, 7:04 p.m.

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This Month in AJN \\u2013 April 2019 monthly highlights

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April 2019

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Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the April issue of AJN. In our first CE, \\u201cErrors in Postoperative Administration of Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia: A Retrospective Study,\\u201d the authors describe and analyze the errors associated with the use of IV patient-controlled analgesia at a large medical center in South Korea. Our second CE, \\u201cA Historical Review of Nurse\\u2013Physician Bedside Rounding,\\u201d discusses how the nurse\\u2019s role in bedside rounding has evolved since the 19th century. The authors of our next article, \\u201cSustaining Nursing Grand Rounds Through Interdisciplinary Teamwork and Interorganizational Partnership,\\u201d present the implementation of a grand rounds program at their naval hospital, and demonstrate how nursing grand rounds can support professional growth and strengthen partnerships. \\u201cEBP 2.0: Implementing and Sustaining Change: From Strategy to Implementation\\u201d introduces a new series focused on the most challenging of the seven EBP steps\\u2014implementation. \\u201cNurses and Climate Action\\u201d discusses the health sector\\u2019s responsibility to address climate change and nurses\\u2019 role in these efforts. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.

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