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b'This Month in AJN \\u2013 February 2018 monthly highlights

February 2018

Editor-in-Chief Shawn Kennedy and Clinical Editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the February issue of AJN. The authors of our first CE, \\u201cOriginal Research: Physical Activity Among Chinese American Immigrants with Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes,\\u201d describe a mixed-methods study that analyzed this population\\u2019s levels of exercise intensity and examined the types of activity performed, as well as the barriers to such activity. Our second CE, \\u201cManaging Sepsis and Septic Shock: Current Guidelines and Definitions,\\u201d discusses recent updates to the Surviving Sepsis Campaign\\u2019s sepsis treatment guidelines, changes in the sepsis bundle interventions, and the new definitions and predictive tools introduced in the Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock. Our next article, \\u201cMoving Closer to the 2020 BSN-Prepared Workforce Goal,\\u201d report findings from the four-year Academic Progression in Nursing initiative to identify and develop the most promising strategies for creating a more highly educated nursing workforce. \\u201cCultivating Quality: A Multidisciplinary QI Initiative to Improve OR\\u2013ICU Handovers\\u201d examines the impact of a standardized handover process on ensuring safe patient transfer between the OR and the ICU. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'