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Editor-in-Chief: V.Susan Carroll, MS, RN, CNE
ISSN: 0888-0395
Online ISSN: 1945-2810
Frequency: 6 issues per year
Impact Factor: .810

Current Issue: June 2013 - Volume 45 - Issue 3
From the Editor
I hope you are all using our JNN app ... it's up and running and provides you with access to journal contents on your mobile devices. New to the journal will be video abstracts beginning with our August issue. This should provide you with a bit of extra insight into the published manuscript. We will continue this in the October issue as well. I'd love to hear from our readers ... good? fun? helpful? Our Twitter site is also tweeting away! Take a few minutes to check this out and join the conversation.

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The Chicago Tribune recently reported US rates of selected medical procedures ... MRIs in this country average 91.2/million compared to the 46.6/million average in the 34 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This adds to the more than $8,000/person spent on health care annually here. The outcomes of "extra" testing are both positive and negative. For more details, go to nlevey@tribune.com No blue book exists for emergency health care costs. Prices range from a $15 charge to evaluate and treat a headache to nearly $18,000 for similar care in another hospital. These giant difference often are related to a patient's insurance provider, or lack of one. New evidence has again linked significantly high blood pressure with low Vitamin D levels. Although a healthy diet and exercise is likely the best approach, these findings may have implications for neuroscience nurses as we plan stroke risk reduction education for our patients. In a new book, "In the Kingdom of the Sick: A Social History of Chronic Illness in America," the author outlines many gender-related gaps in health care. Perhaps most alarmingly, women are far more likely to have their pain and the suffering related to it dismissed as "emotional."
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