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b'Editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy and Clinical Editor Betsy Todd present the highlights of the July issue of the American Journal of Nursing. On this month\\u2019s cover is Moonrise Over the Sandias (2015) by Charles Kaiman, a painter and a psychiatric nurse at the New Mexico Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Albuquerque. Our first CE, \\u201cAppropriate Use of Opioids in Managing Chronic Pain,\\u201d discusses current best practices for prescribing opioids for chronic pain, emphasizing patient assessment and essential patient teaching points regarding safe medication use, storage, and disposal. In our second CE, \\u201cMoral Distress: A Catalyst in Building Moral Resilience,\\u201d the authors outline the concept and prevalence of moral distress, describe its impact and precipitating factors, and discuss promising practices and interventions. Our next article, \\u201cDiabetes Under Control: Prediabetes: What Nurses Need to Know,\\u201d provides an overview of prediabetes criteria and reviews the evidence showing that interventions targeting modifiable risk factors\\u2014such as diet and physical activity level\\u2014can prevent or delay progression to type 2 diabetes. In \\u201cTeaching for Practice: Strategies for Successful Clinical Teaching,\\u201d the authors offer strategies for clinical teaching with an emphasis on the importance of creating a positive learning environment. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'