August 2017 Highlights

Editor-in-Chief Shawn Kennedy and Clinical Editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the August issue of the American Journal of Nursing. On this month’s cover, a mother and her newborn share skin-to-skin contact. Our first CE, “Tuberculosis: A New Screening Recommendation and an Expanded Approach to Elimination in the United States,” provides a general overview of tuberculosis transmission, pathogenesis, and epidemiology, presents pre­ventive care recommendations for targeted testing among high-risk groups, and discusses a new USPSTF screening rec­ommendation. The author of our second CE, “Beyond Maternity Nursing: The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative,” provides an overview of the practices and policies of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI), the insti­tutional benefits of achieving BFHI certification, and the process through which health care facilities can do so. Our next article, “Original Research: The Effects of Red Yeast Rice Supplementation on Cholesterol Levels in Adults,” explores the most recent evidence on the effectiveness and safety of red yeast rice supplementation in treating dyslipidemic adults. In “Good Nursing Is Good Antibiotic Stewardship,” the authors use patient examples to review several antimicrobial stewardship activities and illustrate how nurses are essential to the appropriate use of antibiotics. In addition, there’s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.