The AJN Podcast

The episode follows a practical effort to ease nurse stress and burnout during COVID-19 at Cedars-Sinai, and the serenity lounge is the clearest example of that work.

This episode frames a large humanitarian issue in practical terms, showing how the Red Cross responds to immediate needs, from helping Afghan evacuees to keeping blood collections moving during a pandemic-era decline.

Sean Kennedy treats the discussion as a leadership handoff for AACN in a rough stretch. Beth Woffin describes the organization working through COVID, nurse burnout, staffing strain, and a growing focus on well-being.

The episode treats medical aid in dying as a clinical, legal, and family matter rather than a slogan. Sean Kennedy speaks with Dr. Kaveri Roy and a family member about one patient’s search for a peaceful death, and the discussion quickly meets the limits of U.S. law.

Teresa Brown and Shawn Kennedy keep the episode centered on a simple but hard question: what changes when a nurse becomes the patient? Brown talks about treatment with the same clear detail Kennedy praised in The Shift, and the most memorable moments come from plain logistics…

This Behind the Article conversation on guideline-directed cardiac devices for people with heart failure keeps its focus on the work nurses actually do at discharge. It covers device options, post-op care, and the complications worth watching for.

Christine Moffa's conversation with Elizabeth Dowdell and Pat Speck keeps trauma-informed care grounded in nursing practice. It traces the article back to an American Academy of Nursing policy dialogue, then moves into the daily work of asking better questions, making space for…

Courtney Kehler treats secondary data as a working tool, not a tidy answer. She walks through the practical calls that shape the analysis: whether a sample really matches the population in view, how complex survey design changes the read on the numbers, and what happens when a…