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  Editorial: To Forgive, Divine It’s time to drop the veil of secrecy about disclosing errors.

  Diana J. Mason PhD, RN, FAAN, AJN Editor-in-Chief

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  EMERGING INFECTIONS: On the Cover

  David Belcher

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  EMERGING INFECTIONS: Strategies to Prevent Avian Influenza A (H5N1) in Humans in a Nonpandemic Setting
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  HEALTH & SAFETY: Increasing Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Workers

  Nancy L. Hughes MS, RN

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  JOB focus
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  LETTERS: Confronting Tobacco

  Ruth E. Malone PhD, RN, FAAN

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  LETTERS: Correction
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  LETTERS: Evidence-based Nursing

  Ann Jacobson PhD, RN

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  LETTERS: Evidence-based Nursing

  Jacqueline Ross MSN, RN, CPAN

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  LETTERS: Evidence-based Nursing: Coauthor Diane S. Pravikoff responds
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  LETTERS: Nursing Home Staffing

  Monica Mathew

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  LETTERS: The ANA Aids Hurricane Victims

  Barbara A. Blakeney MS, RN

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  LETTERS: The Challenges of Dementia

  Hedy Danziger

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  LETTERS: The Challenges of Dementia: Coauthor Marianne Smith responds
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  LETTERS: The Pension Incentive

  Faith Gallant RN

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  LETTERS: What's in a Name?

  Connie Rodgers

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  LETTERS: Working with Dystonia

  Faye Obey MS, RN

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  NEWS: Can the Public Health System Protect the Public Health? Perhaps only in some parts of the country.

  Fran Mennick BSN, RN

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  NEWS: Counseling Couples on Conceiving: Reviewing a long-sanctioned method of predicting fertility.

  Fran Mennick BSN, RN

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  NEWS: FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH: A Culturally Sensitive Dietary Program Rural blacks with diabetes lost weight and reduced fat intake.

  Maureen Shawn Kennedy MA, RN

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  NEWS: Kashmir’s Earthquake Victims: Starvation and exposure to cold threaten hundreds of thousands.

  Joy Jacobson

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  NEWS: Legislative Update

  Fran Mennick BSN, RN

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  NEWS: Will Katrina and Rita Change the Nursing Landscape? Thousands of nurses and nursing students have evacuated damaged regions. Will they return?

  Dalia Sofer

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  NewsCAPS

  Maureen Shawn Kennedy MA, RN

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  PROFILES: Images to Inspire: One RN shares her passion with the public.

  Loretta Hunt

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  SEXUALLY SPEAKING: Sexuality and Hysterectomy: Finding the Right Words Responding to patients’ concerns about the potential effects of surgery.

  Anne Katz PhD, RN

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  THE POLITICS OF CARING: Getting Involved in Health Care Reform: The Health Care Working Group and the Medicare Informed Choice Act are at the forefront.

  Sheila Abood PhD, RN

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  VIEWPOINT: Treating Mental Illness in the ED: Psychiatric illness is sometimes an emergency.

  Ken Stanton PhD, RN

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  AJN REPORTS: The Clinical Nurse Leader—Needed or Not? Opinions vary; results still out.

  Roxanne Nelson BSN, RN

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  DRUG WATCH

  Diane S. Aschenbrenner MS, RN, CS

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  EMERGING INFECTIONS: West Nile Virus and the U.S. Blood Supply: New tests substantially reduce the risk of transmission via donated blood products.

  Steven A. Avalos-Bock BSN, RN, CIC

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  IN OUR COMMUNITY: Celebrating the Underground Railroad: Nurses retrace 180 miles of the legendary freedom network.

  Eileen Toughill PhD, RN, APN, C,Cathi L. Breslin BS, RN,Barbara Smith RN,Sandra VanSant MSN, MPH, RN, APN, C,Robert S. White MSN, RN, APN, C,Maryanne Christopher MSN, RN, APN, C, FAAN

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  ISSUES UPDATE: Influenza Pandemic Preparedness: Can we handle the truth?

  Margaret Kay

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  LIVING WITH ILLNESS: If Only They Could Talk: Interpreting the behaviors of preterm infants challenges nurses and parents.

  Diane Holditch-Davis PhD, RN, FAAN

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  NURSING RESOURCES: Voices of Experience: Nurses’ personal stories illuminate and enrich clinical practice.

  Veneta Masson MA, RN

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  SHORT TAKES ON LONG-TERM CARE: Consolidating Medication Passes: It can lead to more time with patients.

  Dianne V. Liebel MSEd,Nancy Watson PhD, RN