Emergency Nurses Receive New Measles Containment Protocols

Editor Anna Valdez emphasized that many current emergency nurses are encountering measles for the first time in their careers. The featured article, "Measles Frontline Defense," serves as a practical manual for managing patient assessment and preventing transmission within high-traffic clinical settings. This guidance arrives as the medical community grapples with a resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses, despite the disease having been declared eliminated in the United States in 2000.

Beyond the measles protocols, the September issue addresses other critical clinical challenges, including fundamental approaches to Ebola screening and methods for improving documentation for boarded patients. The Emergency Nurses Association also announced that its journal will transition to a fully digital format in January 2027, a shift intended to accelerate the dissemination of research and practice updates to its 40,000 global members.