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The Perception Treadmill: Has Nursing’s Status Really Gone Anywhere?
Treadmill/Image via Wikipedia By Margaret Gallagher, BSN, RN. Margaret is a cardiovascular nurse currently working in Georgia. Her last post for this blog was “Return on Investment: A Mother Makes Her...
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White Uniforms for Nurses? The ‘Nays’ Have It…
By Maureen Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN editor-in-chief Nurses and patients aboard U.S.S. Relief, 1921/via Wikipedia Well, if sheer numbers rule, then the image of nurses in white uniforms has gone the...
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Guess Who’s Wearing Housekeeping Garb Now? Surprise! It’s Your Nurse
Julianna Paradisi, RN, OCN, writes a monthly post for this blog and works as an infusion nurse in outpatient oncology. Catch-all: noun [usu. as modifier] a term or category that includes a variety of...
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A Found Poem For Nurses Week
Badruddeen, via Flickr The poem below, originally published in our May 2005 issue, is by Veneta Masson, MA, RN. It’s a “found poem,” a form of poetry in which the poet assembles phrases selected from a...
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Top Health Story Picks of AJN Contributing Editors for 2015
By Diane Szulecki, AJN associate editor Nurse and Miss America contestant Kelley Johnson by Disney | ABC Television Group via Flickr With the end of the year steadily approaching, AJN asked its...
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Being a Nurse, or When Did You ‘Grok’ Nursing?
How does one “become” a nurse, as opposed to learning nursing skills? What is “being” a nurse as opposed to “doing” nursing? On our Facebook page last week, we posted this query: “Professional identity...
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