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WHAT WE'RE BLOGGING ABOUT
* In their post "Building Back Better: Constructive Nursing Regulation," nurse and attorney Edie Brous and health care policy expert Diana Mason call for reforming the boards of nursing (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7Ew).
* "Unaware of a patient's or family member's health literacy level, we may use technical terminology that creates a barrier we are oblivious to, one that results in confusion, frustration, and anxiety," writes physician Ryan Michael McAdams in "The Baby with Tetralogy of Flow" (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7Dv).
* In her post "Every Frontline Has a Backline: What Nursing Can Learn from Rugby," pediatric ICU nurse Tess Feury, also a member of the USA Women's National Rugby Team, writes about the importance of those who support frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (https://wp.me/p7sy0l-7E7).
WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK, AND OUR BLOG
"[Nursing regulation reform] is long overdue. Bring it on!" "Sadly, it is easier to take ourselves out of important, worldwide organizations [like the World Health Organization] than it is to ever return. . . . We have a lot of apologizing to do and now many decades of rebuilding trust." "Thank you for emphasizing the global health care needs that extend beyond COVID-19."
SEPTEMBER PODCASTS
* Monthly highlights: Listen to AJN editors discuss the contents of the September issue.
* Behind the article: Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy speaks with
* Kimberly Smith Sheppard, lead author of "Original Research: Nurses' Knowledge and Comfort with Assessing Inpatients' Firearm Access and Providing Education on Safe Gun Storage."
* Carolyn Jones, whose film is discussed in "An Intimate Glimpse of Emergency Nurses at Work."
* Douglas P. Olsen and Linda J. Keilman, authors of "The Moral Distress of Nurses When Patients Forgo Treatment Because of Cost."
* Our popular Reflections column is now a podcast! Listen to a reading of Kathleen Resnick's personal essay, "A Different Kind of Nurse."