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Health Care Reform Works—If You Work It
Image by urbanbohemian via Flickr By Gail M. Pfeifer, MA, RN, AJN news director My husband and I both recently had preventive screening colonoscopies, which are now covered under the Affordable Care...
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The Affordable Care Act Survives, At Least for Now
Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Senate roll call, Affordable Care Act/by Kurykh, via Wikimedia Commons It’s been a couple of weeks now since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the...
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About Those Death Panels
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Diana Mason, former editor-in-chief of AJN, wrote a post on July 9 on the JAMA Forum blog that’s well worth reading. In it, she talks about the resurgence of...
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Campaign-Inspired Hot Summer Friday Thoughts
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Commuting in and out of Manhattan gives me plenty of time to listen to the radio and of course, with Election Day a mere 90 days away, the presidential campaign...
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Michelle Obama: Health Care Reform the ‘Right Thing to Do’
The full transcript of Michelle Obama’s moving convention speech can be found here. Here she is on making difficult decisions: “But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as...
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The ACA and Me: A Dispatch From the Trenches
Argonauta: The Beach at My Back/ oil stick on paper, 2010 by Julianna Paradisi Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology....
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48 Years of Medicare (and Counting)
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief, and Jacob Molyneux, senior editor Next week marks Medicare’s 48th anniversary. President Lyndon Johnson signed the legislation creating Medicare on July 30, 1965,...
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One Is the Loneliest Number
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief The Bartholdi statue, liberty enlightening the world: the gift of France to the American people. Speculative depiction published the year before the statue was...
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They’re Not Taking Away Our Puppies (And God Help Them If They Do)
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor/blog editor I am amazed at the amount of time being wasted on the relatively mundane matter of health care exchanges. It seems we are now facing a government...
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Tightly Scripted: One NP’s Experience with Retail Clinics
By Karen Roush, MS, RN, FNP-C, AJN clinical managing editor Retail health clinics (walk-in clinics that are in a retail setting such as a drugstore or discount department store) have become an...
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AJN’s Top 15 Most Viewed Articles in 2013
by rosmary/via Flickr We thought readers might be interested in seeing which articles and topics got the most page views in 2013. Many of these articles are open access, including a number of CE...
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Nursing, HIV/AIDS, Continuity of Care, Treatment Advances, and the ACA: The...
As the Affordable Care Act takes effect, a timely overview in AJN of recent developments in screening, treatment, care, and demographics of the HIV epidemic The ‘cascade of care’ (from the AJN article)...
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Some Friday Links to Blog Posts of Interest, Plus Some Health Care News Items
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor/blog editor Here you will find some links to nursing and physician blog posts, a look at this week’s Affordable Care Act health exchange enrollment numbers, and a...
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AJN in December: Surveillance Tech, Obesity Epidemic, Questioning Catheter...
AJN’s December issue is now available on our Web site. Here’s a selection of what not to miss. To watch or not to watch? Long-term care facilities are challenged with providing care for a growing...
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Recalling the Why of Health Care Reform
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor In a brief analysis of the gradual rollout and effects so far of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) at the start of this year (“The ACA Continues to Run the Gauntlet”),...
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Soul-Satisfied, but Heartbroken: The ‘Soft’ Skills of Oncology Nurse Navigators
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, is an oncology nurse navigator and writes a monthly post for this blog. The illustration below is part of a series on mountains as barriers that she is working on. Untitled...
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As ACA Under Threat, Dawning Awareness of a Law’s Many Provisions
by matsuyuki/via Flickr Nurses reflect the American population’s variety, and this means that many nurses support the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and many would like it repealed, whatever the replacement...
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Top Nursing, Policy, Clinical Stories of 2016
Crowd members hold candles during a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Photo © Associated Press Late last year, we asked our editorial board members...
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This is What Democracy Looks Like, Nurses Included
Photos by Karen Roush. “Nursing leaders have called upon all nurses to be heard, from bedside to boardroom and beyond. Not all of us share the same political views, and that is how it should be.” By...
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An Oncology Nurse’s Perspective on the Health Insurance Situation
Money Bag/ by Julianna Paradisi/ all rights reserved Costly Care I was an oncology infusion nurse in a hospital-based ambulatory center for a number of years, many of them before the Affordable Care...
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