Adult Health Nursing Journal (AHNJ) Volume 3 Number 1 (2026) features articles on adult health and medical-surgical nursing in acute and chronic care contexts, covering academic stress among nursing students, nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practice in nursing process implementation, thermal comfort management among patients undergoing regional anesthesia, stress and coping mechanisms among family members of critically ill patients in the intensive care unit, and Buteyko breathing techniques to improve quality of life among adults with asthma, to support evidence-based, patient-centered, and family-centered nursing care.