Honoring Hispanic Heritage: And Other Recommended Reading from AJN’s October Issue

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The October issue of AJN is now live.

In recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month, AJN’s October cover features Wings That Remember, Wings That Resist, a work by artist Daniel Suárez-Baquero, PhD, MSN, BSN-RN, and graphic designer Nelson Martinez. Suárez-Baquero says that the image—a resplendent quetzal in flight—is a reflection on “migration, resilience, and freedom.” Read more here.

This month’s issue celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month. As noted by Tina Loarte-Rodriguez in her guest editorial, “The legacy of Hispanic and Latine nurses is one of courage, compassion, and an unwavering pursuit of justicia in health. Nursing must embody the equity it champions: by reckoning with racism, fostering healing within our profession, and elevating diverse nurse leaders who reflect and serve our communities.”

To that end, this special issue features:

A Specialty Spotlight on public health nursing
A Focus on DEI column on diversity fatigue in nursing
An interview with nurse scientist Paule V. Joseph
Poems by nurses Luis Alejandro Roldán Cubides and Michael Williams
An article on a community health navigator program that serves immigrant populations in Iowa

Additional articles of note this month include a CE article, “Long-Term Follow-Up and Monitoring of Patients Who Undergo Bariatric Surgery,” a study on factors that impact the quality of life of breast cancer patients, a Perspectives on Palliative Nursing column on assessing health-related values, among others.

Finally, Don’t miss the extensive health care news sections, the Drug Watch and Journal Watch sections, a Viewpoint on the side effects of public equity, and more.

Browse and subscribe.

Some articles in this issue will be free to access; others will require log-in or subscription. You can subscribe to AJN, America’s most respected and oldest general interest nursing journal, for just $52.00 for a year (12 issues), so why not give it a try or give a subscription as a gift? We pay attention to appearance as well as content, and hope the cover of every issue will look good on a coffee table!