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AJN's Web site, http://www.ajnonline.com, offers access to current and past issues (from 1900 on), podcasts, article collections, news alerts-and much more. Bookmark our blog, Off the Charts (http://ajnoffthecharts.com), to read frequent updates and share your thoughts on what you see in your nursing world. Join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/AJNfans), follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/AmJNurs), and be sure to download the new AJN app on your iPad.

 

WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT

 

* Read "Success Being Relative" for a thoughtful post by Marcy Phipps, RN, on the "frenetic desperation" of a trauma team and what constitutes a "success" (http://wp.me/prthD-3ef).

 

* Why are we so reliant on specialists? Read "An NP's Plea: Hold That Specialist" by clinical managing editor Karen Roush (http://wp.me/prthD-3dc).

 

* For a patient perspective on end-of-life care, read "Talking About Death: Not Nice, but Necessary" by editor Amy M. Collins (http://wp.me/prthD-3br).

 

SEPTEMBER PODCASTS

 

* Monthly highlights: Listen to AJN editors discuss the contents of the September issue.

 

* Conversations: Associate editor Alison Bulman speaks with Carolyn Jones, who photographed and interviewed the nurses on our cover for her new book The American Nurse.