Over 5000, and Counting!

Thanks to your interest, NursingWriting has enjoyed over 5,000 visits since its inauguration in July 2008. We are grateful also to the editors and others who send us calls for submissions regularly, which we archive here.
Publishing nurses’ writing is important for several reasons. Academic nurse scholars need to publish for the purposes of promotion and [...]

CFS: ScrubsMag.com

ScrubsMag.com invites students and parents to share stories about an exceptional school nurse in their life for inclusion in an article celebrating school nurses for National School Nurse Day. School nurses are also invited to submit stories about memorable moments helping a student, stories about why you love your profession, etc. Responses should include your [...]

Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication

Registration is now open for the Sixth International Congress on Peer Review and Biomedical Publication to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, September 10-12, 2009.
This congress, organized by JAMA and the BMJ Publishing Group, will feature 3 days of presentations of original research. As with the previous congresses, our aim is to improve the [...]

CFS: Association of Black Nursing Faculty Journal, Special Issue (Success)

A call for abstracts for The ABNF Journal, official journal of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty, Inc. Special Issue of The ABNF Journal, July, 2009. Edited by: Dr. Sandra Sayles and Dr. Diana P. Jones.
Theme: How to Succeed in Higher Education
Send manuscripts to: Dr. Sandra Sayles, College of Nursing, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, [...]

CFS: Currents in Teaching and Learning

Currents in Teaching and Learning is a new peer-reviewed electronic journal that fosters exchanges among reflective teacher-scholars across the disciplines. Currents invites submissions for its Fall 2009 issue, including:
-Short reports from different disciplines on classroom practices (2850-5700 words). We welcome both individual and group submissions. A group submission would present a forum consisting of two [...]

CFS: Ars Medica (creative writing, non-fiction)

ARS MEDICA actively seeks submissions from nurses.
ARS MEDICA is a biannual literary journal, started in 2004, that explores the interface between the arts and healing, and examines what makes medicine an art.
ARS MEDICA remains the only medical literary journal in Canada, and one of a handful of such journals in the world, in the rapidly [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Managing Large Writing Projects

John Gastil’s Career Advice column, “Managing Large Writing Projects,” in the 24 April 2009 edition of Inside Higher Ed offers credible advice to graduate students and faculty who are engaged in large writing projects (including dissertations and lengthy research articles). The article is consistent with research on faculty productivity, particularly the extensive research conducted by [...]

CFS: Journal of Transcultural Nursing

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing is the official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society. It is a peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal that is intended to provide a forum for the discussion of the relationship between culture and health care. Research reports, analysis and discussion articles, reviews of the literature, theoretical articles, clinical applications, and analytical case [...]

ABC News: Nursing, Recession-Proof Major?

By now widely circulated is a video from ABC News entitled Nursing: Recession-Proof Major?
Nursing faculty may want to share it with their students.

RINAH Virtual Compendium

Research in Nursing & Health announces “the first virtual compendium of the most read articles and editorials on qualitative methods in Research in Nursing & Health. Although they cover a range of topics, 10 of these 14 papers show the growing concern over the last two decades with enhancing the utilization value of qualitative research. [...]