November 2015 Highlights

Published: Oct. 27, 2015, 9:15 p.m.

b'Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and Clinical Editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the November issue of the American Journal of Nursing. This month\\u2019s cover features the third-place winner of AJN\\u2019s 2015 Faces of Caring: Nurses at Work contest, depicting a nurse caring for a patient at Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, Alabama. Our first CE, \\u201cAdverse Late and Long-Term Treatment Effects in Adult Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Survivors,\\u201d summarizes the identification, evaluation, and management of potential treatment-related effects in adult survivors of hematopoietic stem cell transplants. Our second CE, \\u201cImagery for Self-Healing and Integrative Nursing Practice,\\u201d describes how imagery can be used to encourage patients\\u2019 healing process, and presents an imagery technique and a sample script to use in practice. In \\u201cPrescription Opioid Analgesics: Promoting Patient Safety with Better Patient Education,\\u201d the author uses a case study to examine the risks of nonmedical opioid use in postoperative patients and highlights the nurses\\u2019 role in patient education to avoid adverse outcomes. Finally, \\u201cPreventing Newborn Falls While Supporting Family Bonding\\u201d addresses the circumstances behind newborn falls in hospitals when infants are in the care of family members, and reports on steps hospitals are taking to effectively prevent these accidents. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'