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WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT
* AJN editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy shares resources for new nurses, including a collection of articles on transitioning to practice, in her post "Welcome to Nursing's New Grads!" (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7fU).
* "While we may think of empathy as an innate, natural behavior, recent findings have been interpreted to mean that practicing empathy does not just happen but takes a conscious effort," write nursing instructors Mallory Bejster and Olimpia Paun in their post "In Nursing, Empathy Is a Practice to Cultivate" (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7eK).
* In "The ECRI Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns of 2019," AJN senior editor and social media strategist Jacob Molyneux highlights the ECRI Institute's latest annual report on threats to patient safety (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7bZ).
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND OUR BLOG
"Love stories of teamwork among nurses. Teamwork can happen and should happen more often." "I have had cancer, a stroke, and a grandchild die, and I can say that each tragedy or challenge has made me 'more.'[horizontal ellipsis] Our response to our suffering can be either to expand and evolve or contract and get stuck in the place of victim." "Empathy is a practice to cultivate but unfortunately is a dying art."
AUGUST PODCASTS
* Monthly highlights: Listen to AJN editors discuss the contents of the August issue.
* Behind the article: Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Anne Katz, author of "Obesity-Related Cancer in Women: A Clinical Review."