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Bringing awareness to this major public health issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article profiles nurse Barbara C. Schutt who faced imprisonment for protesting the Vietnam War and joined the Vietnam Agent Orange Relief and Responsibility Campaign (VAORRC) group to educate people on damage caused by the dioxin-containing herbicide, Agent Orange. It include her comments about illness and birth defects caused by the chemical. It adds the Victims of Agent Orange Relief Act of 2015 introduced by California Representative Barbara Lee for assistance to war victims.

The article presents a profile of Jonathan Bartelsand his early experience in the health care field, and how he tried to run away from a career in nursing. Topics discussed include doing graduate work in comparative religion he received a call from his family that his brother was dying of glioblastoma, process of helping to care for an epiphany; and started off in medical–surgical nursing, working with patients undergoing organ transplants with a combined unit with postoperative and medicine.

Freshman congresswoman Lauren Underwood brings nursing and health care policy experience to the table. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information about the intervention program being launched by the nurse Laurel Edinburgh against the sexual exploitation of young girls. It focuses on the structure of program founded by her in 2005 and the program is known as the Ramsey County Runaway Intervention Program. Topics discussed include the structure of the program, its role in upgrading the lives of young girls and the future challenges.

The article provides information on career related aspects of Judy Murphy, chief nursing officer at IBM Global Healthcare. Topics discussed include her leadership role in nursing informatics and development of nursing practice in healthcare; experience with information technology (IT); and solutions created for patients' safety.

The article offers information on Leslie Mancuso, chief executive officer of nonprofit organization Jhpiego, and her work for empowering nurses. Topics include developing care strategies by training nurses, midwives, and other health care workers; requirement of bringing nurses and midwives on discussions related to health care priorities and goals; and adopting innovative ways for changing health care landscape.

In this article the author talks about the U.S has the highest maternal mortality rate compared with other high-income countries, and the pregnancy is especially dangerous for women of color; in an analysis of maternal deaths between 2013 and 2017. It mentions that the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case of a Louisiana law requiring abortion provider have admitting privileges at local hospitals.

The article provides information on aspects related to integration of mental health in primary care and nurse student Brenda Reiss-Brennan. Topics discussed include her job in child psychiatric unit at the University of North Carolina, her writings on nursing care plans, and approach for family therapy.

The article focuses on nurse Jeannine Loucks, who train Orange police officers in how to approach field encounters with people with mental illness.

The article presents author's views regarding her experience of miscarriage and care she received from a nurse at that time. Topics include comfort provided by the nurses to people in their comfortless situations, blurting of author in her sleep during surgery regarding her feelings about nurses; and advice given by the nurse to author which helped her in overcoming her grief.

The article offers information on the staff nurse leadership program Clinical Scene Investigator (CSI) Academy of the Nursing Workforce Innovation Center co-founded by Karen Cox, chief operating officer of Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas. Included in the article are the program basics of the CSI program, positive outcomes of the program to the hospitals, nurses, and patients, and program expansion to six other U.S. cities.

The article discusses the American Academy of Nursing which has identified nurses in transforming the health care. Topics discussed include nurse midwife Sharon Schindler Rising provided prenatal care to groups of expectant young mothers in 1974, 'CenteringPregnancy' acted as a model to enable women to go through pregnancy together participating in facilitated group discussion, and hospital clinic nurses spent most of their time weighing patients and putting charts in doors.

The article focuses on Barbara Daly, intensive care units (ICUs) nurse in Cleveland, Ohio. Daly mentions about chronically ill patients who tend to be sick for a long time and use ICUs for long time which led her to develop first special care units (SCUs) for critical patients who really needed. She discussed the aim of the SCUs to create an atmosphere which support nurses in managing their work and mentioned about long-term acute care and new projects of SCUs.

The article profiles Donna L. Torrisi who is the Executive Director of the Family Practice and Counseling Network which is a system of four nurse-run health centers located in or near public housing in Philadelphia.

The article focuses on a culturally relevant program for ethnic minority families designed by nurse Deborah Gross and her colleagues to address the specific child-rearing challenges they faced. The goal of the program is not only to help parents be better parents, but to reduce mental health problems in children. The program has been a success and is listed in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices.

The article profiles Cindy Sickora, assistant professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey's School of Nursing, who launched the Jordan and Harris Community Health Center in September 2011.

A personal narrative is presented in which the author discusses her experience when she was in labor pain.

The article discusses the experience of a 16-year-old high school student living in New York City named Ana for managing her suffering from type 1 diabetes disease. She mentions about the use of insulin and regular checkups to manage blood glucose levels. Anna also informs about the role of attending a camp for children with type 1 and type 2 diabetes for curing his diabetes disease.

The article states that Debra A. Toney, who had achievements such as being Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in 2009, illuminated nursing with the honor of being selected as a torchbearer in the London 2012 Olympic Games. It states that she was given this honor in recognition of her work towards promoting healthy lifestyles and for empowering civic engagement in communities. It states that the honor is extremely special to her as this symbolizes recognition of her life's work by her peers.

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various reports published within the issue including one which described disability as a universal aspect of human experience, one about the interactions of people with disabilities and nursing staff during hospitalization, and one which offers an account from a patient's viewpoint.

The article features Theron Bell, a breast cancer survivor of five recurrences. The discovery of his illness is noted together with the subsequent treatments and three recurrences between 1978 and 1984. His reconstructive chest surgery in June 1996 is described. The speaking engagements that came after his operation include the positive effects of the awareness that he created. Bell served the board of the John W. Nick Foundation, which is dedicated to increasing male breast cancer awareness.

The article discusses the four nurses who lost their lives at the Fort Hood Army base in Fort Hood, Texas, when alleged gunman Major Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Center. Among the nurses who died were Russell G. Seager who was preparing for his first overseas deployment, Juanita L. Warman who was deploying to Iraq, John P. Gaffaney, a psychiatric nurse deploying to Iraq and Michael Grant Cahill, a civilian employee helping to prepare soldiers for deployment.