CFS: Nursing Engagement (Nursing Administration Quarterly)

Nursing Administration Quarterly Upcoming Issue Topics 2008 to 2010
Topic   Vol.    Deadline Date    Issue Editor(s)
Creating A Culture of Nursing Engagement, Vol. 33:4, May 1, 2009, Patricia S. Yoder-Wise, Issue Editor
Engagement in one’s work is what all leaders strive to achieve for their organization. In 2007, the Gallop Organizations released the results of 10,000,000 workplace interviews related to [...]

CFS: Medical Humanities (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference)

PCA/ACA AREA: Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture
POPULAR CULTURE AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS NATIONAL CONFERENCE
New Orleans Marriott, New Orleans, Louisiana
April 8-April 11, 2009The “Medical Humanities: Health and Disease in Culture” PCA/ACA area examines a wide variety of topics related to the experiences of human beings pursuing health and living with illness. Interdisciplinary proposals representing [...]

Job Coaches

In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (26 Sept. 2008) entitled “Job Coaches Help Professors Get Back on Track,” Audrey Williams June explores the use of private career coaches for scholars who are stuck.
The article’s concluding points (danger signs?) are worth considering:
Junior professors, midcareer faculty members, and even the most seasoned of academics [...]

Abstracts: Geriatric Nursing, Education, Simulation Conference

Call for Abstracts
Geriatric Nursing, Education, and Clinical Simulation
April 2-3, 2009
Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Conference Center
Research Triangle Park, Durham, NC USA
Connecting the Dots
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing and Flinders University School of
Nursing and Midwifery located in Adelaide, Australia invite you to submit an abstract to this international
conference that will address [...]

Medical MacArthur Fellows

Announced in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the new MacArthur Fellows include several working in medicine, health, and medical humanities:
Regina Benjamin, 59, founder and chief executive of Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic, in Bayou La Batre, Ala. She is a rural family physician forging a model of compassionate and effective medical care in one [...]

CFS Nursing Admin Q (Innovation in Transforming Orgs)

Nursing Administration Quarterly
Topic: Innovation in Transforming Organizations
Vol./Issue       Vol. 33:3, Deadline date for January 15, 2009, Issue Editor(s) Tim Porter O’Grady and Kathy Malloch, Issue Editors
Nurse executives often find themselves confronting painful and challenging transformations in organizations. Relief can be found in knowledge management. Education for innovation is the key to developing a model  to transcend the ages, which [...]

Research Tip: New Networking Web Site

An article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education announces the inauguration of a new academic networking site, Academia.edu .
The article notes that:
Richard Price, a research fellow at the University of Oxford’s All Souls College, is blasting an e-mail plea to every academic mailing list and blog that he can find asking academics to sign up [...]

CFS: Journal of Forensic Nursing

The Journal of Forensic Nursing (JFN), the official journal of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN), is a quarterly, peer-reviewed publication dedicated to advancing the science of forensic nursing by enhancing the knowledge of clinicians, educators, administrators, and researchers. The journal’s objective is to publish scholarly manuscripts and to expand empirical evidence important to [...]

CFS: Bellevue Literary Review (creative writing)

The Bellevue Literary Review seeks high-caliber, unpublished work, broadly and creatively related to our themes of health, healing, illness, the mind, and the body. Prose should be limited to 5000 words. Poetry submissions should have no more than 3 poems. Please include all poems in one document. BLR reads submissions year-round, but makes most editorial [...]

CFS: Research in Nursing and Health

Research in Nursing & Health is a peer-reviewed, research journal devoted to publication of a wide range of research and theory that will inform the practice of nursing and other health disciplines. The journal invites your research reports on nursing practice, education, administration, and history; on health issues relevant to nursing; and on the testing [...]