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
* "I spotted a cockroach making its way across her pillow. And then another on her lap. And then they were on the wall behind the bed[horizontal ellipsis]," Amanda Anderson describes in "Working Out the Bugs: Old and Alone in the City," about an elderly patient with no support system (http://wp.me/rthD).
* Read about Florence Nightingale's extraordinary influence on modern medicine in "Acknowledging Nightingale's Pervasive Influence on Medicine as We Know It," by AJN senior editor Jacob Molyneux (http://wp.me/prthD-4qg).
* In "NPR Syndrome," Julianna Paradisi discusses the impact of an increasingly digital culture on nurses' ability to battle compassion fatigue (http://wp.me/prthD-4pj).
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND OUR BLOG
"One of the keys I have found is accepting that I cannot help the world, however I can help in my little corner of it- whether that consists of emotional support for someone going through a difficult time, or having the ability to help one person with a few groceries." "I work in rehab and people say the same thing: 'How can you do that? Isn't it depressing?'[horizontal ellipsis] Yes, it is disheartening, but the examples in my life remind me why I do what I do every day."
MAY PODCASTS
* Monthly highlights: Listen to AJN editors discuss the contents of the May issue.
* Behind the article:
* Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with the lead author of "Responding to the Cholera Epidemic in Haiti."
* Clinical managing editor Karen Roush speaks with the authors of "Intimate Partner Violence in Rural U.S. Areas: What Every Nurse Should Know."