The United States Congress recently recognized longtime AAACN member, Cynthia Murray, by flying an American flag over the U.S. Capitol Building in her honor. Murray was honored for her service to the veterans of southern NJ, advocating for the expansion of local access to quality medical and behavioral health care, decreasing travel burden, and increasing timelines of care received. She has also been a strong advocate in the prevention of veteran suicide.

Surgeon General Jerome Adams: Protect Against the Measles - Measles is one of the most contagious of all infectious diseases. You may have heard about measles in the news recently. Here's what the U.S. Surgeon General wants you to know so you can protect your family.

Nurse.com: Avoid untruths in your nursing documentation - Nurse managers in a home health agency document the start and stop times for IV infusions, but they did not administer the IVs. Can this nursing documentation be considered truthful and accurate.

Rocking Improves Sleep, Boosts Memory - Sleeping on a rhythmically swaying surface helps synchronize sleep oscillations in the human brain, a study finds. Read the full article in TheScientist.

From the New York Times: Pediatric pain specialists believe that reducing the pain associated with needles can lead to better health care. Nurses are important in comforting patients form the very young (in this case) to the very old.

Nurse practitioners can make a difference patient by patient - Patients made more than 1 billion visits to nurse practitioners last year. NPs are educated and well-trained to provide patients access to high-quality, primary healthcare services and keep the family and community involved in the process....

Four Ways to Enhance Language Access during Disaster Response & Recovery: Is your healthcare, public health, or emergency response organization ready to communicate effectively with all the people in your community who rely on you? HHS has developed...

As 2018 comes to a close, we’re pleased to share some AAACN accomplishments from the past year, as well as exciting initiatives planned for 2019. Thanks to the support of our members and tireless contributions of our volunteer leaders, AAACN continues to grow and thrive!

...of an ambulatory care nurse. In this older, timeless video/interview from 2011 a nurse is featured describing a day in her life at an ambulatory care center.

It can show gentleness and compassion or carelessness and incompetence. It started, as it does for thousands of women every year, with a routine mammogram, and its routine process of having my breasts — like a lump of dough — manipulated by another woman’s hands and placed, albeit gently, into tight compression. It’s never comfortable, but you get used to it because you have to. Read the full article in the New York Times.