May 2018 Highlights

Published: April 26, 2018, 6:48 p.m.

b'This Month in AJN \\u2013 \\xa0May 2018 monthly highlights
\\n May 2018

\\nEditor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the May issue of AJN. The authors of our first CE, \\u201cOriginal Research: Exploring Clinicians\\u2019 Perceptions About Sustaining an Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Program,\\u201d describe a qualitative study they conducted to address the knowledge gap between implementing and sustaining evidence-based fall prevention practices for hospitalized patients. Our second CE, \\u201cA Review of Current Practice in Transfusion Therapy,\\u201d covers the blood products that are commonly transfused, discusses the potential complications of transfusion\\u2014including TACO, TRALI, and TRIM\\u2014and outlines current recommendations for transfusion therapy. Our next article, \\u201cSpecial Feature: Assisted Suicide/Aid in Dying: What Is the Nurse\\u2019s Role?\\u201d presents the panel discussion that occurred during a policy dialogue on aid in dying at the American Academy of Nursing\\u2019s annual conference in 2016. In \\u201cProfiles: Nurses at the Top\\u201d we discuss how two nurse leaders\\u2014Regina Cunningham, chief executive officer of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System and executive vice president of Johns Hopkins Medicine\\u2014got to where they are today. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'