Here’s a glance at what’s happening this month, along with some resources for your learning and professional development.

Nursing Recognition Dates

Occupational Health Nurses Week
April 3-9, 2022
#OHNWeek

• NCPD Appropriate coding and billing in occupational health 
• Ensuring Workplace Safety: Evidence Supporting Interventions for Nurse Administrators 
• NCPD Specialty: Occupational Health 

Wound, Ostomy and Continence (WOC) Nurse Week
April 17-23, 2022
#WOCNurseWeek2022

• Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing
• Advances in Skin & Wound Care: The Journal for Prevention and Healing

Transplant Nurses Week
April 25 – May 2, 2022

• NCPD Specialty: Transplantation 
• Common Postoperative Heart Transplant Complications 

Healthcare Observances

Here are some of the healthcare observances being recognized in April.
Alcohol Awareness Month

• NCPD A Feasibility Study to Direct System Level Change for Hospital Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder
• NCPD Latent Profiles of Alcohol Consumption Among College Students Exposed to Trauma

Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
#IBSAwarenessMonth #LifeWithIBS

• NCPD Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Autism Acceptance Month
#CelebrateDifferences

• Perceptions on Screening for Developmental Disabilities and Autism in Childcare Settings
• Primary care of children with autism spectrum disorder : Pilot program results

National Child Abuse Prevention Month

• Screening Tools for Child Abuse Used by Healthcare Providers: A Systematic Review
• NCPD Child Abuse: Recognition, Reporting, and Response

National Donate Life Month
#DonateLife #BeeADonor

• Organ Donation Decision in Families With Brain-Dead Patients: An Evolutionary Concept Analysis
• An Analysis of the Controversial Relationship Between Anencephaly, Brain Death, and Organ Donation

Sexual Assault Awareness Month
#SAAM2022

• Implementation of Sexual Assault Services in a Clinic Setting

STD Awareness Week
April 10-16
#STDWeek 

• Pocket Card: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Guideline Summary: Sexually Transmitted Infections

World Immunization Week
April 24-30

• Collection: Increasing human papillomavirus immunization in the primary care setting

Nursing Events

• 2022 WIN Conference
• National Student Nurses' Association Annual Convention
• ASPAN National Conference
• Annual Critical Care Transport Medicine Conference
• AONL 2022
• American Association of Post-Acute Care Nursing (AAPACN) 2021 Conference
• 29th National Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Conference
• National Conference for Nurse Practitioners (NCNP) Spring
• ANIA Annual Conference
• SPN Annual Conference

See all events for 2022 here!

Anything missing? Please let us know in the comments!
Have a good month!