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

\\nNovember 2018

\\nEditor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and clinical editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the November issue of AJN. Our first CE, \\u201cOriginal Research: Patient Handling and Mobility Course Content: A National Survey of Nursing Programs,\\u201d examines what nursing programs teach students about lifting, turning, transferring, repositioning, and mobilizing patients. Our second CE, \\u201cHow to Predict Pediatric Pressure Injury Risk with the Braden QD Scale,\\u201d offers guidance on use of the Braden QD Scale\\u2014a pediatric risk assessment instrument that reliably predicts both immobility-related and medical device\\u2013related pressure injuries. The author of our next article, \\u201cLooking Back: Nurses Fight for the Right to Vote,\\u201d shares the stories of four nurses suffragists\\u2014Lavinia Lloyd Dock, Mary Bartlett Dixon, Sarah Tarleton Colvin, and Hattie Frances Kruger\\u2014who were arrested for their involvement in the women\\u2019s suffrage movement. \\u201cCultivating Quality: The Integrative Therapy Nurse: A Valuable Player in Symptom Management,\\u201d written by an RN with board certification in therapeutic massage and bodywork, describes how she implemented an integrative therapy initiative on the spinal cord injury and disorders unit at a Veterans Affairs medical center that resulted in decreased pain and increased relaxation among the veterans who participated. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'