Improving Patient Throughput: Recommended Reading in AJN’s April Issue

The April issue of AJN is now live.

How can an acuity-adaptable model improve patient throughput and care? This month’s Original Research article, “Breaking Through the Bottleneck: Acuity Adaptability in Noncritical Trauma Care,” evaluates the implementation of such a model on a 20-bed noncritical trauma unit, examining the pre- and postimplementation metrics for throughput efficiency, resource utilization, and nursing quality indicators. (CE credit available)

Read “The Occupational and Environmental Hazards of Uncovered Toilets” to learn about the potential exposure risks associated with toilet plume aerosols—and how nurses can address these risks.

Crowdsourced registries have been used to quickly gather information, especially during emerging public health concerns. In “Developing Crowdsourced Clinical Registry Studies,” the authors describe the process of planning, developing, executing, and evaluating the crowdsourced COVID-19 and Invasive Cryptococcal Disease Registry, and highlight the use of a project management approach to successfully implement the resulting study.

“How Nurses Influence the Patient Experience,” the latest article in a series from health care performance improvement organization Press Ganey, discusses the various patient experience categories that are influenced by nursing and how they connect to the human experience in health care.

See also the extensive health care news sections, the Journal Watch and Drug Watch sections, a Focus on DEI column on advancing equity in maternal health care, an AJN Reports on nurses’ efforts to address climate change, and more.

A note on the cover:

On this month’s cover is a photo of nursing leader Claire Fagin, PhD, RN, FAAN, who passed away on January 16. Read a tribute written by her colleagues here.

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Some articles in this issue like the original research studies, news, and the editorial will be free to access; others will require log-in or subscription. You can subscribe to AJN, America’s most respected and oldest general interest nursing journal, for just $37.95 for a year (12 issues), so why not give it a try or give a subscription as a gift? We pay attention to appearance as well as content, and hope the cover of every issue will look good on a coffee table!

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