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Dec 1, 2024 | 
journals.healio.com | Heather Young |Donna M. Fick |Sarah Kagan |Debra Bakerjian
IntroductionNovember is National Family Caregivers Month, a time to recognize and honor the people—be they family members, friends, or neighbors—who provide vital support to older and disabled adults while they navigate challenges to health and function in their daily lives. This year, we want to recognize two legendary women leaders, Rosalynn Carter and Claire Fagin. Mrs.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Nurse burnout. Caregiver burden. The corrosive experiences of burnout and burden are everywhere today, threatening to blot out the very purposes of nursing and caregiving. Nurses and care partners support us all at various points in our lives and especially so in later life. The terms burnout and burden have become shorthand characterisations of the contemporary state of our roles. Nurses are burned out; caregivers are overburdened.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Jennifer Baumbusch |Sarah Kagan |G. J. Melendez-Torres
We are delighted to announce our eighth annual International Journal of Older People Nursing (IJOPN) Awards. As editors, we are very conscious that we guide a community of readers, authors, reviewers, social media editors and editorial board members. So many members of our community serve the journal and contribute to our discipline of gerontological nursing in diverse and noteworthy ways. Each year at this time, we acknowledge outstanding contributions and service during the prior year.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Raise your hand if you've ever ignored, deleted or lost track of an invitation from an editor to review a manuscript. Peer review is both a process and a role that doesn't always work well for anyone involved. Editors hunt endlessly for scholars to invite to do peer review. Authors hope for thoughtful and understanding peer reviewers whenever they upload a manuscript for consideration by a journal. Peer reviewers?
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May 13, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Every year, April and May bring two important days of commemoration. Earth Day we typically recognize in our communities and at home. We celebrate International Nurses Day in our workplaces and professional societies. But this year these international fetes fit together in a distinct and valuable way.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Keywords. Not a topic that excites many readers, I imagine. But I would like to convince you that keywords are critical to advancing science and are thus quite exciting. Think of the roles that keywords play in science. Keywords place a research report in the context of a larger body of literature. Keywords tie one research report to others addressing the same and closely related topics. Evidence syntheses are built on a foundation of keywords.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Those who correspond with me directly may notice a few quotes beneath my contact details in my email signature. The words I took time to include there mean a great deal to me. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Dorothy Day are among those represented. The quotations from their works talk about kindness, time, and being. Their words are among those by which I strive to act each day.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
Around the world, hospitals are used more by older people than any other demographic, but hospitals are often as bad for the health and function of older people as they are for the planet. We nurses know well that hospitals are laden with risks to older people's health and function. What we know less well is that hospitals' outsized greenhouse gas emissions and waste streams harm the planet, significantly contributing to the triple planetary health crisis.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
thefinalhop.com | Sarah Kagan
Sarah Kagan Updated on Jul 6, 2023 8 min read "Tailoring Cybersecurity Frameworks to Meet Organizational Needs"In an era where digital threats continuously evolve, organizations worldwide must prioritize the implementation of robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard their critical data and systems.
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Mar 10, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sarah Kagan
As nurses, our enduring discourse on the art of nursing runs paradoxically in the inverse to our consideration of the craft of writing. We love to contemplate and discuss the art of nursing. We think and talk about what it is, what it means, how it is expressed, and whom it affects. Conversely, writing is something we are encouraged to do throughout much of nursing, including here in our specialty. But we do not think or talk about the craft of writing much at all.
