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Published: June 27, 2018, 10:10 p.m.

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This Month in AJN \\u2013 \\xa0July 2018 monthly highlights
July 2018

Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the July issue of AJN. Our first CE, \\u201cOriginal Research: The Efficacy and Safety of an RN-Driven Ketamine Protocol for Adjunctive Analgesia During Burn Wound Care,\\u201d describes a study that evaluated the efficacy and safety of a practice protocol allowing critical care RNs to independently administer IV ketamine for burn wound care. Our second CE, \\u201cBreast Cancer Screening: A Review of Current Guidelines,\\u201d reviews the guidelines of the American Cancer Society, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and provides guidance to nurses as they support and educate patients. The authors of our next article, \\u201cEthics Champion Programs,\\u201d discuss how these programs prepare nurses to function as unit-based ethics resources for colleagues as they face common ethical issues and challenges. \\u201cCultivating Quality: Making It Stick: Developing and Testing the Difficult Intravenous Access (DIVA) Tool\\u201d reports on a QI initiative to create a simple evidence-based tool to help novice nurses predict which patients will present peripheral IV access challenges. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'