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Normal Blood Pressure — in 1914
That’s an excerpt from an October 1914 article about blood pressure that was published in AJN (our older articles only exist in PDF versions, so click the PDF link in the upper right corner of the...
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HCR: Been There, Done That
By Maureen ‘Shawn’ Kennedy, AJN editor in chief I was doing some research in the AJN archives and came across an editorial written in November 1993 by Virginia Trotter Betts, then-president of the...
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Errors to Avoid in Scientific Publication, circa 1929
Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief Scholarly publication has been under fire because of lack of rigor and conflicts of interest. And authors seem to be clueless at times as to how things went so wrong....
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Nursing and Women’s Basketball Go Back a Long Way
Nursing Student Basketball Team, Grace Hospital, Detroit, 1924 By Maureen ‘Shawn’ Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief I’m a big college basketball fan (to me, professional teams seem less about the team and...
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If You Like Nursing History…
Pediatric NP, circa 1965 By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief If you enjoy reading about nursing in the days of yore like I do, then there are a few resources I want to point out to you. The...
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Why Aren’t There More Men in Nursing?
Male nurse action figure/ gcfairch, flickr By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Men have served in nursing roles since at least the third century, when a special order of men was said...
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Nurse ‘Edge Runners’ from the AJN Archives
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief In her message to nurses for Nurses Week, ANA president Karen Daley notes, “This year’s National Nurses Week theme, ‘Delivering Quality and Innovation in Patient...
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Surely, ‘Tis Not an Easy Cap to Satisfy…
otisarchives4/Flickr. By Karen Roush, AJN clinical managing editor Though the nursing cap went by the wayside years ago, this beautifully written essay by a nurse about her cap, published in AJN in...
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Winding Down Nurses Week 2013
By Shawn Kennedy, AJN editor-in-chief We’d be remiss not to mention Florence Nightingale during Nurses Week, especially since her birthday marks the end of the celebration. (She was born on May 12,...
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Angelina, Florence, End-of-Life Care, Nursing History, Postpartum Depression:...
By Jacob Molyneux, AJN senior editor/blog editor In the news today we have an op-ed piece in the New York Times by Angelina Jolie about her rationale for getting a double mastectomy. There are sure to...
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