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

March 2018

Editor-in-Chief Shawn Kennedy presents the highlights of the March issue of AJN. The authors of our first CE, \\u201cOriginal Research: An Investigation into the Safety of Oral Intake During Labor,\\u201d compared the maternal and neonatal outcomes among laboring women permitted ad lib oral intake with those permitted nothing by mouth except for ice chips. Our second CE, \\u201cMalnutrition in Older Adults,\\u201d reviews the many cognitive, psychological, social, and economic factors that can affect the nutritional status of older adults, and how nurses can intervene to prevent and address malnutrition in these patients. Our next article, \\u201cCultivating Quality: Expanding RN Scope of Practice to Include Lumbar Puncture,\\u201d discusses a QI initiative that enhanced access to neurology services in an ambulatory clinic by teaching nurses to perform lumbar puncture. \\u201cSupporting Family Caregivers: No Longer Home Alone: Teaching Wound Care to Family Caregivers\\u201d reviews methods to promote wound healing that nurses can use to teach family caregivers, and includes links to instructional videos. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'