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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 an illustration of gastrointestinal microbiota. The authors of our first CE, \\u201cHealth and the Human Microbiome: A Primer for Nurses,\\u201d provide an overview of the current state of knowledge about the human microbiome\\u2014with a focus on the microbiota in the GI tract and the vagina, the two most commonly studied body sites\\u2014and discuss implications for nursing practice. Our second CE, \\u201cEarly Intervention in Patients with Poststroke Depression,\\u201d explains how poststroke depression often manifests, describes risk factors, and discusses the screening tools and therapeutic interventions nurses can use to identify and help manage depression in patients following stroke. In our next article, \\u201cThe Growing Need for Diverse Blood Donors,\\u201d the chief nurse of the American Red Cross discusses how changing demographics necessitate an increase in more ethnically diverse blood donors, and shares strategies nurses can use to address this need. In \\u201cEthical Nursing Care When the Terminally Ill Patient Seeks Death,\\u201d the authors review clinical perspectives on the assessment of the patient\\u2019s wish or request to die, ethical questions, and the current legal landscape to consider how nursing care can be ethically provided to a patient requesting death. Finally, in \\u201cCould Emotional Intelligence Make Patients Safer?,\\u201d the authors address how emotional intelligence may be a skill that can help nurses to \\u201cerror proof\\u201d communication in the health care setting. In addition, there\\u2019s News, Reflections, Drug Watch, Art of Nursing, and more.'