Dear Lillee,
I had recently picked up an overlooked June 2024 copy of American Nurse Journal and began with your editorial. I’m one of those people who read the editorial pages and Letters To The Editor. You wrote about “keeping our focus on proven practices and core interventions … ’nursing basics’…”
The CNE article was about Fall Prevention and I recalled how back in the 1970’s we would tie bed sheets across the patient’s beds and improvise wrist restraints from towels and adhesive tape in our attempts to prevent falls.
But besides amusing you with a bit of nursing history, my main reason was to tell you that the reason I like reading the American Nurse Journal is that very thing mentioned above: the fact that the journal consistently provides practical information for the bedside nurse. I also subscribe to the Journal of Emergency Nursing (my specialty for 28 years prior to retirement) and the Journal of American Nursing, but both have become more and more focused on printing nursing research articles, which are overly long and usually of little value to the average nurse, if they have the patience to read the entire article or can understand the statistical jargon and graphs, while minimizing information needed by the everyday nurse.
Your editorial in the October 2025 edition wrote about CNE articles employing reflective learning and critical thinking. Bravo! I enjoy reading your editorials, those of Jennifer Mensik Kennedy, and the journal’s content.
Best wishes,
Joseph Treimel, BSN
