CFS: The Healing Muse

The Healing Muse, the annual journal of literary and visual art that is published by Upstate Medical University’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, is looking for artists and writers for next year’s fall publication! We welcome fiction, poetry, narratives, essays, memoirs, drawings, photography, and graphic art, particularly but not exclusively focusing on themes of medicine [...]

CFS: Home Health Care Management and Practice

Home Health Care Management and Practice
Upcoming Planned Topic Themes http://hhc.sagepub.com/  
21.3 Technology in Community Based Care Settings- Barbara Stover Gingerich. A compilation of articles focused on telehealth and community based care, including telemonitoring, robotics, Internet health information, use of WebQuests and more. Submit your manuscript and share your organization’s telehealth initiatives and successes, new programs, [...]

Grants: NINR Updates

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) would like to bring to your attention three new Notices from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announcing the availability of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding for Competitive Revisions (formerly Competitive Supplements), Administrative Supplements, and Administrative Supplements for Summer Research Experiences.
Please take note of the [...]

CFS: RINAH

Research in Nursing & Health offers new, added features: Author Services and Early View.
Research in Nursing & Health (RINAH) offers:
· Quick and easy to navigate online submission system @ http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nur
· Research published in RINAH is widely indexed
· RINAH’s Impact Factor is an impressive 1.000!
· Articles are published on Early View ahead of print
· Authors can [...]

CFS: Mental Health and Substance Use – Dual Diagnosis

Mental Health and Substance Use – Dual Diagnosis seeks submissions. Increased recognition of co-existing mental health and substance use issues over the past 20 years has led to a growing body of discussion and research into the efficacy of interventions, treatment, and service delivery. As knowledge and expertise advance, professionals at the forefront of the [...]

CFS: Association for Medical Humanities

ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL HUMANITIES CONFERENCE 2009
The sixth annual conference of the UK and Ireland Association for Medical Humanities takes place in Durham, UK, 6th to 8th July 2009, on the general theme Taking the Body Seriously. The conference’s aim is to bring humanities resources, both single-discipline and inter-disciplinary, to bear upon our understanding of how [...]

NINR/ARRA 2009 New Opportunities

The National Institute of Nursing Research announces challenge grants in health and science research under the provisions of the newly passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. See our “Blinks” for Web links to NINR and its grants page.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has developed a document, Funding Opportunities for Colleges of [...]

To Write Grant Apps, Read Grant Apps

One of the best ways of learning how to write successful grant applications is to volunteer for opportunities to serve as a grant application reviewer.
In some instances, this strategy may be easier said than done, but the energetic grant writer will actively seek out grant reviewing activities.
NIH grants are perhaps the most selective (both in [...]

4000 Plus and Counting!

The Dow may be dropping, but at NursingWriting business is booming.
Late in January we noted that we had passed the 3000th visitor since we launched in summer 2008.
In a little over a month since then, we’ve welcomed another thousand visitors.
Thanks to you for your interest. Thanks to you for your research, scholarship, and creative writing. [...]

CFS: Critical Care Nursing

 The American Journal of Critical Care http://ajcc.aacnjournals.org/misc/ifora.shtml  and Critical Care Nurse http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/misc/ifora.shtml  both seek submissions; both are peer-reviewed journals.
Visit the journals’ Web sites for submission guidelines.