Highlights from the AJN special edition – AJN Off the Charts blog

The April issue With ALL is live now.

Here are some highlights. Some articles are publicly available or temporarily free; others would require you to log in to access.

In this month’s guest editorial, “The Sherlock Holmes of nursing”Angela Frederick Amar, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of New York University’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing, provides an interesting overview of the profession of forensic nursing pioneer Ann Burgess. She begins this manner:

Ann Wolbert Burgess is usually described because the “Sherlock Holmes of nursing,” but that title only captures half of her legacy. Although Holmes deduced what had already happened, Burgess’s biggest gift was her uncanny ability to “see around corners” – to discover social crises and clinical needs years, sometimes many years, before the remaining of the health care and legal systems noticed them. Throughout her extensive profession, Burgess has been on the forefront of forensics, victimology and behavioral profiling. Her prediction is characterised by three distinct “turns” during which she predicted the longer term of nursing and the criminal justice system.

Rest editorial is free to read and is each inspiring (in the very best sense of the word) and informative.

a field that has evolved and continues to evolve in exciting ways. According to the subject, Special reflector concerns sexual assault nurse examiners and Point of view is named “Forensic nursing: incredible legacy, unknown future” (each require login or subscription).

CE article on this issue (CEs are at all times free) is unusual and engaging. A narrative review by Ann Burgess and colleagues titled “The Menendez brothers and changing attitudes over 35 years,” this text reflects the ever-evolving curiosity and compassion that has led Burgess to query the knowledge she has acquired throughout her profession, and we highly recommend reading it, whether you wish a CE certificate or not.

Of greater than historical importance, we’re republishing an AJN article from October 1973:Rape victim within the emergency department” This article, as we read within the editor’s comment,

“…details of a study by Ann Burgess and Lynda Lytle Holmstrom that interviewed rape victims and established one among the primary crisis counseling programs within the country. The groundbreaking study on the time caught the eye of the FBI. As Burgess recently told AJN (see Conversations), Roy Hazelwood of the Division of Behavioral Sciences on the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, was tasked with developing a rape investigation curriculum. At the tip of 1 lecture he asked if anyone knew anything about rape. The detective, who was also a nurse, told him that she had recently read an article about rape within the AJN. It was this text and what followed that led to Burgess teaching FBI investigators interview rape victims and ultimately developing the methodology that served as the idea for profiling serial offenders.

This issue also features a very readable and thought-provoking conversation with today’s Burgess:Interview with Ann Wolbert Burgess“

And finally in ours Reflections column “I almost didn’t write this reflection (and that’s why I did it)”, the nurse reflects on her own sexual assault by a friend, her experience of lack of faith from those around her, and why only now, after many years, does she feel empowered to write about it.

There’s still quite a bit to find.

Also in-depth on this issue AJN reports examines where we’re when it comes to rapidly implementing artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in nursing and healthcare:Artificial intelligence and nursing: Complicating the narrative of inevitability“

Original research articles on this issue include: “Nurses’ actions to implement the Sustainable Development Goals: A worldwide study“And”Falls in patients requiring intensive care – examining the predictive value of the Morse falls scale: a retrospective evaluation“

Finally, don’t miss the extensive section, and departments.

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