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Today’s Nursing Shortage: Workforce Considerations

The 6 new articles in this new OJIN topic, Today’s Nursing Shortage: Workforce Considerations, present contemporary aspects of the nursing shortage and actual and potential factors of concern.

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83. Contemporary Perspectives on Poverty

The 6 articles in this OJIN topic, Contemporary Perspectives on Poverty, describe current aspects of poverty and potential actions for nurses and other healthcare providers.

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82. Nurses’ Impact on Firearm Safety

The 4 articles in this OJIN topic, Nurses’ Impact on Firearm Safety, offer insights into the issue of firearm violence in the United States with opportunities for nurses to make the places we work and live safer for all.

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81. Virtual Opportunities for Nurses

The 6 articles in this OJIN topic, Virtual Opportunities for Nurses, offer perspectives about the changing landscape of healthcare that includes new opportunities for nurses as technology evolves.

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Special Topic: Nursing Now

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80. COVID-19: Addressing Ongoing Pandemic Mental Health Concerns for Providers

The 7 articles in this OJIN topic COVID-19: Addressing Ongoing Pandemic Mental Health Concerns for Providers, offer perspectives about trauma informed approaches and mental health care for nurses.

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79. Addressing Disabilities in Healthcare

The 7 articles in this OJIN topic Addressing Disabilities in Healthcare, discuss both nurses who have disabilities and caring for persons with disabilities.

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78. A Nurse's Impact on Advocacy and Policy

In the 5 articles in this OJIN topic Nurses’ Impact on Advocacy and Policy, we offer discussion about how nurses at all levels can impact policy and become healthcare advocates across multiple and varied settings.

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77. Racism and Nurses: Diverse Perspectives

In the 5 articles in this OJIN topic Racism and Nurses: Diverse Perspectives, we offer discussion about current challenges and trends to address racism in nursing and healthcare.

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76. Advancing Technology in Healthcare: Are You on Board?

The 6 new articles in this OJIN topic Advancing Technology in Healthcare: Are You on Board?, discuss current technologies that are rapidly growing in healthcare settings.

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75. The COVID-19 Pandemic and Nurses: Caring for Others and Ourselves

The 8 articles in this OJIN topic The COVID-19 Pandemic and Nurses: Caring for Others and Ourselves, discuss various aspects of this current concern.

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74. Nursing Education: Philosophical Perspectives on Current Challenges

In the 8 articles in this OJIN topic Nursing Education: Philosophical Perspectives on Current Challenges, we offer discussion related to present day challenges for nurse educators, including, but not limited to the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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73. Substance Use Disorders and Related Concerns: Perspectives from Nurses

The 6 new articles in this OJIN topic Substance Use Disorders and Related Concerns: Perspectives from Nurses, discuss various aspects of this current concern.

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72. The 200th Birthday of Florence Nightingale: Celebrating the History of Nursing

In the 7 articles in this OJIN topic The 200th Birthday of Florence Nightingale: Celebrating the History of Nursing, we celebrate the legacy of our most famous nursing leader with articles that demonstrate the legacy of nurses, often describing times of crisis such as we face today with the coronavirus pandemic.

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71. The Year of the Nurse in 2020: Nurse Led Initiatives in Policy, Practice, and Education

In the 6 articles in this OJIN topic The Year of the Nurse in 2020: Nurse Led Initiatives in Policy, Practice, and Education, we celebrate nurses, and offer examples of practice changes by individual nurses and nursing organizations.

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70. Nursing in the Uniformed Services: Historical and Research Perspectives

The 5 articles in this OJIN topic Nursing in the Uniformed Services: Historical and Research Perspectives, discuss practice and contributions of nurses in the seven United States uniformed services, and in Jordan.

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69. Past, Present, and Future: Nurses Address the Times of Our Lives

The 5 new articles in this OJIN topic Past, Present, and Future: Nurses Address the Times of Our Lives, discuss ways in which nurses have historically been and continue to be a stabilizing presence in times of uncertainty.

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68. Sexual Harassment in Healthcare

The 6 new articles in this OJIN topic Sexual Harassment in Healthcare, discuss various aspects of this current concern in settings common to healthcare providers.

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67. Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Progress and Opportunities

The 5 new articles in this OJIN topic Addressing Social Determinants of Health: Progress and Opportunities, discuss various aspects of these important determinants in clinical settings and academia.

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66. Translational Research: From Knowledge to Practice

The 4 articles in this OJIN topic Translational Research: From Knowledge to Practice, discuss the emerging science of translational research, with helpful knowledge aimed at a variety of nurses.

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65. Ethics in Healthcare: Nurses Respond

The 6 articles in this OJIN topic Ethics in Healthcare: Nurses Respond, discuss various aspects of ethics that nurses encounter in education and practice settings.

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64. Back to Class: Perspectives on School Nursing

The 5 new articles in this OJIN topic Back to Class: Perspectives on School Nursing, discuss various aspects of school nursing, in the words of school nurses.

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63. Healthcare Reform: Nurses Impact Policy

The 5 articles in this OJIN topic Healthcare Reform: Nurses Impact Policy, discuss the impact of nurses on policy outcomes in a variety of contexts from local to global.

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62. Emerging Global Health Concerns: How Nurses Respond

The 6 new articles in this OJIN topic Emerging Global Health Concerns: How Nurses Respond, discuss a variety of aspects related to response to international crises and concerns.

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61. Elimination of Barriers to RN Scope of Practice: Opportunities and Challenges

The 6 articles in this OJIN topic, discuss the concept of full RN scope of practice, resulting from the work of the American Nurses Association Professional Issues Panel, Barriers to RN Scope of Practice.

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60. Organizational Outcomes for Providers and Patients

The 5 articles in this OJIN topic, discuss the impact of nursing on outcomes in a variety of contexts.

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59. The Patient Experience: Capturing the Intricacies of Contributing Factors

The 5 new articles in this current OJIN topic, discuss a variety of aspects related to patient experiences, such as measurement, different care settings, and the contributions of internationally educated nurses.

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58. Care Coordination: Benefits of Interprofessional Collaboration

The 5 articles in this OJIN topic, captures several important steps in the evolution of knowledge and practice of transitional care and care coordination.

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57. Cornerstone Documents in Healthcare: Our History, Our Future

The 5 new articles in this OJIN topic, discusses a variety of aspects related to historical and current documents important to nursing practice and health care.

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56. Emotional Health: Strategies for Nurses

The 5 new articles in this current OJIN topic, discusses a variety of aspects related to psychiatric and mental health concerns.

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55. Healthy Nurses: Perspectives on Caring for Ourselves

The seven articles of this topic fills an important gap in our knowledge by offering specific measures about how nurses can maintain and improve their physical and emotional health.

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54. APRN Roles: Opportunities and Challenges for Practice and Education

The five articles in this OJIN topic discuss a variety of aspects related to practice and education in a rapidly changing healthcare environment.

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53. Societal Violence: What is Our Response?

The four original articles in this OJIN topic discuss a variety of aspects related to violence in our society.

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52. Healthcare and Quality: Perspectives from Nursing

The five original articles in this Current OJIN topic discuss a variety of aspects related to quality in the healthcare environment.

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51. Delivering Nursing Care: Current Factors to Consider

The 6 original articles in this OJIN topic, discuss a variety of factors that may impact nursing care.

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50. Patient and Visitor Violence: What Do We Know? What Can We Do?

The 5 initial articles in this OJIN topic, emphasize recent evidence and action related to workplace violence in this context.

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49. Social Media and Communication Technology: New “Friends” in Healthcare

The 5 initial articles in this OJIN topic bring to light some existing research and expertise on the emerging presence of social media in healthcare.

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48. The New Millennium: Evolving and Emerging Nursing Roles

The 6 initial articles in this OJIN topic emphasize evolving and emerging aspects of nursing scope, practice settings, roles, and models.

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47. Nurse Advocates: Past, Present, and Future

The 5 initial articles in this OJIN topic emphasize advocacy by nurses and for nurses on individual and professional levels.

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46. Creating a Culture of Safety: The Next Steps

The 5 initial articles in this OJIN topic emphasize concrete steps to consider in the quest to view safety in a context beyond improvement of outcome measurements for any single variable, but rather as ingrained in the way of life in the healthcare environment.

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45. Patient-Centered Care: Challenges and Rewards

The 6 initial articles in this OJIN topic emphasize ‘person-centeredness,’ a term that is becoming increasingly familiar within health and social care at a global level to describe a standard of care that ensures the patient/client is at the center of care delivery.

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44. Compassion Fatigue: Caregivers at Risk

The 5 initial articles in this topic emphasize the emotional and physical risks inherent to providers at both professional and lay levels of care.

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43. Moral Courage Amid Moral Distress: Strategies for Action

The articles for this topic emphasize how to identify situations that may involve moral distress, and offer strategies to develop skills that support moral courage in these difficult encounters.

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42. Delegation Dilemmas: Standards and Skills for Practice

The six initial articles in this topic address a variety of considerations that are important in successful delegation. These considerations include traditional and emerging thought about the common skills necessary for delegation and the unique challenges across practice settings. A number of common themes emerge in this topic.

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41. Promoting Healthy Work Environments: A Shared Responsibility

The 6 articles in this OJIN topic, elaborate on the essential elements of and strategies to create healthy work environments. Readers have a unique opportunity to learn, at the strategic planning level, both tactics for implementation of healthy work environments and effective mechanisms for evaluation.

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40. Promoting Health Literacy: Strategies for Healthcare Providers

The original 6 articles in this OJIN topic are devoted to health literacy, a concern that nurses, and all healthcare providers, can do so much about. These articles emphasize individual, person-centered health literacy efforts and recognize the broader issues of health literacy within our society; they will be of value across healthcare roles and settings seeking to address this common, yet elusive, and often hidden, problem of low health literacy.

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39. Nursing Technologies: Innovation and Implementation

The need for innovative technologies in healthcare education and service has never been greater. The 3 original articles in this Topic provide key insights on essential aspects of the use of technology in nursing. The topic explores concepts such as “user-driven” and “disruptive” innovations; and creativity. Early nursing involvement in the introduction of a new technology in the patient care environment and use of simulation techniques as a vital educational link between didactic content and sound clinical experience are also discussed.

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38. Obesity on the Rise: What Can Nurses Do?

This topic is a resource to help nurses take action to become more informed about obesity and to position themselves as role models and educators for their families, communities, and patients. The five articles offer the reader a comprehensive overview of overweight and obesity and include such topics as best nursing practices with practical information for patient care, the pediatric obesity epidemic, obesity in older adults, an overview of bariatric surgery, and best practices for safe patient handling. Each author seeks to maximize the ability of nurses to assist patients toward attaining a healthier life style through education, sensitivity, and knowledge of best practices.

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37. Professional Pathways in Nursing: Options to Seek, Start, and Sustain a Career

The 4 articles in the this topic, consider the varied career patterns in nursing education and practice across time and across cultures. Specific topics discussed include contemporary U.S. entry points into professional nursing; the development of articulation patterns and career ladders; skills and educational preparation needed for nursing faculty roles; and pathways to professional nursing education in Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand.

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36. International Nurse Migration: Facilitating the Transition

The articles in this topic portray in a realistic manner the political and cultural landscape of international nursing. The articles describe obstacles and opportunities to international recruitment, exchange, and partnership. Specific topics discussed include concerns related to migration as a temporary arrangement, a Latin American perspective on nurse migration, a description of an acculturation program for internationally educated nurses, the globalization of higher education, and the experiences of a nurse who migrated to the United States from the Philippines.

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35. First Genetics, Now Genomics: What Do Nurses Need to Know?

This topic provides valuable information about your responsibilities to help your patients access health care that meets their needs by integrating the most up-to-date discoveries. These articles discuss partnerships to prepare the practicing nurse to offer clinical care that integrates genetic and genomic information; the value of the nurse’s perspective in designing service delivery models that promote the safe, efficient, and effective utilization of genetic/genomic information in care decisions; enzyme replacement therapy; ethical issues related to genomics encountered throughout the life continuum and around the world; ethno-cultural beliefs and practices for utilization of genomic-based care; and resources available to arm nurses with information to learn about and teach genetics.

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34. The Value of RNs: How Can We Communicate our Economic Worth?

Any discussion of economics and economic valuing in what now is a globally connected health care delivery system is daunting talk, particularly to those among us who might prefer a focus on the art and science of care giving. Yet the nursing discipline is embedded in, and central to any discussion on the economic valuing and delivery of health care on many fronts. If this were not the case, one would have to seriously wonder, Why not? It is hard to imagine any serious health care venue consuming nursing resources in the United States or abroad - acute care, primary care, long-term care, home or public/community-based care, the military, informatics firms, pharmaceutical companies, and others - without seriously considering the value that nurses and nursing bring to bear on care or services outcomes.

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33. Environmental Health: Important Choices for a Greener World

How many "Green' magazine covers have you seen lately? Likely you've seen a number of these Green covers since there has indeed been an increase in the number of such covers recently. This OJIN topic takes a look at environmental hazards, particularly chemical hazards, and considers the health effects of these hazards and the role of nurses in protecting and promoting health through healthier environments.

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