The Best Nursing Publications You Should Be Reading
Jan 4, 2015 | 12:00 pm
In the nursing field, it is truly important to stay up-to-date on industry practices and information from professional development to critical care. According to the Nursing School Hub, it is vital that nurses read good quality nursing publications frequently. Currently, there is a lot of information available both online and offline that narrowing down the best nursing publications to read or use as reference material can be quite daunting.
According to the American Nurses Association and the Nursing School Hub, below are some of the best nursing publications that every nurse should read. The list is presented in no particular order, since each publication offers its truly own unique benefit to readers.
The American Nurse (TAN)
This is the American Nurses Association’s (ANA) official publication. Each edition examines top issues that face registered members of ANA and what the association is doing in order to help advance the nursing profession. In this publication, columnists dissect matters that affect nurses and the nursing profession, as well as information on how ANA is working tirelessly to help nurses.
The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing™ (OJIN)
OJIN is ANA’s online peer-reviewed, intercontinental online publication that clearly addresses important issues that affect the nursing profession, education, research and the broad health care sector. CINAHL and Medline index this online journal. But, you will need to log on as a member of ANA in order to read the latest topics on OJIN. Back issues are available to every Nursing World website visitor.
Nursing Care Plans: Diagnosis, Interventions, and Outcomes, 7th edition by Meg Gulanick and Judith L. Meyers
The book offers nurses with more than 200 care plans that have been specifically designed to help treat common ailments that many nurses often encounter. The book provides information that nurses will find valuable in delivering adequate care to patients. The book has a user-friendly format, which is quite unique in comparison to most nursing care plan publications. This book also comes with an internet-based companion.
Ross and Wilson Anatomy and Physiology in Health and Illness By Anne Waugh
There is no doubt that this book is an interesting and thorough one, which explains physiology and anatomy of the human body in a conventional sense. This book also explains exactly what the body goes through when it is hit by various ailments. This book will provide nurses with a crystal clear understanding of what is “affected” and how it can be addressed and fixed.
Saving Lives: Why the Media’s Portrayal of Nurses Puts Us All At Risk by Sandy Summers
The book addresses the current and much required account of how unrealistic depictions of nurses in movies, on television shows, and in the media as whole can greatly impact how patients view nurses. The author outline just how nurses are viewed by the general population as givers of pills and supply gatherers instead of being portrayed as actual medical professionals with experience and wealth of knowledge, the author goes on to outline that the media is unwittingly making patients mistrust nurses. The publication also outlines recommendations for improving the image of nurses.