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This article affirms the crucial role nurses play in maintaining health and preventing diseases, connects the devastating havoc of the Ebola virus disease to another issue of nursing shortage in underdeveloped countries, and asserts the key leadership nurses play in protecting the communities they serve while maintaining their safety and those of other health care workers. Nurses must actively seek a place at the table, as echoed by the American Academy of Nursing and American Nurses Association and the American Nurses Association, when decisions are being made regarding Ebola virus disease: at care settings, in the board room, and at federal, state, and local levels.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1043659615574326","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,26]],"date-time":"2015-02-26T06:41:08Z","timestamp":1424932868000},"page":"322-326","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Nurses Leading the Fight Against Ebola Virus Disease"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Priscilla L.","family":"Sagar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Mount Saint Mary College, Newburgh, NY, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1043659615574326","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1475-6773.2007.00714"},{"key":"bibr2-1043659615574326","unstructured":"American Academy of Nursing & American Nurses Association. 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