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AJN's Web site, http://www.ajnonline.com, offers access to current and past issues (from 1900 on), podcasts, videos, article collections-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 Pinterest (http://www.pinterest.com/amjnurs), and be sure to download the AJN app on your iPad.

 

What we're Blogging About

 

* Geriatric NP Joan Melton describes how a hospice nurse's suggestion helped her cope with her mother's short-term stay in a nursing home in "If She Yells 'Help Me'-Poster Therapy to Convey the Needs, Identity of an Ailing Parent" (http://wp.me/prthD-4Fx).

 

* Douglas Olsen explores the ethical complexities involved when nurses refuse to take part in practices they find morally objectionable in "The Ethics of a Nurse's Refusal to Force-Feed Guantanamo Hunger-Strikers" (http://wp.me/prthD-4EH).

 

* Read the observations of ICU nurse and longtime AJN blogger Marcy Phipps, who recently made the transition to flight nursing, in "Flight Nursing Notes-The Feel of a Homecoming" (http://wp.me/prthD-4DQ).

 

What Readers are Saying on Twitter, Facebook, and our Blog

"I wish more people understood what people with dementia go through and how frightening it is for the people who have it." "If a patient is of sound mind, then they should be able to make decisions about their religious or personal beliefs." "There has to be a point where being human takes precedence over following orders."

 

September Podcasts

 

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

 

* Behind the article: Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with

 

the lead author of "Champions for Central Line Care."

 

the author of the In Our Community article, "Emergency Anaphylaxis at School."