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WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT
* Will cases of measles and pertussis become commonplace now that more parents are refusing to let their children receive vaccines? Check out "States Easing Up, Pediatricians Buckling Down on Childhood Immunizations," by editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy (http://wp.me/prthD-2LS).
* Read "When Lawmakers and Physicians Hold Nurses Back" by Toni Inglis, MSN, RN, CNS, FAAN, for a relevant take on barriers to practice (http://wp.me/prthD-2Kl).
* Marcy Phipps, RN, provides some fun facts in "On Cats Sucking the Breath Out of Babies, and Other Health Superstitions" (http://wp.me/prthD-2La).
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ON FACEBOOK AND OUR BLOG
"We all need to support the nurses' duty to provide patient education and patient advocacy as well as to advocate for the legal right of RNs to practice nursing to its fullest scope, regardless of the setting." "I will never forget the shift, years ago, I was charge nurse in a busy PICU, and the ED nurse called asking for beds. She needed six. They were coding a child with 'an unidentified red rash and high fever.'" "God bless the health care providers that work in dementia facilities for the jobs they willingly and cheerfully do daily."
APRIL PODCASTS
* Monthly highlights: Listen to AJN editors discuss the contents of the April issue.
* Behind the article:
* Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with Suzannne C. Smeltzer, coauthor of this month's original research article, and with Lisa I. Iezzoni and Michael Ogg, coauthors of a patient perspective companion piece.
* Clinical managing editor Karen Roush speaks with Kit S. Devine, author of "The Underutilization of Emergency Contraception."