New Link: Directory of Open Access Journals

A new link added to our “Blinks” list, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), maintained by the Swedish Lund University Libraries. As the home page notes:
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4434 journals in the directory. Currently 1697 [...]

Veterans Day

Today, November 11, we mark Veterans Day (which started out earlier in the 20th century as “Armistice Day” to mark the end of World War I).
Wartime and military nurses have served an indispensable role in the history of nursing. In some ways, wartime nursing precipitated the professionalization of nursing, with the founder of professional nursing, [...]

10,000 and Counting!

Like the Dow Jones Industrials Index, NursingWriting has broken 10,000!
In the past three months our “traffic” has grown considerably, and we have welcomed over 1,000 visitors per month.
In the past day we welcomed our ten thousandth visitor.
Thanks to all our readers for their support. Thanks to all our nurse writers for their good work.

APA Publ. Manual 6th Ed.: Trade Them In

Reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education (and posted earlier here on NursingWriting), the new 6th edition of the APA Publication has numerous errors, for which APA issued on line a list of errata.
Now the APA has decided that purchasers of the flawed first printing of the  6th ed. can return them for a corrected [...]

Inside Higher Ed: Correcting APA Style Guide

In an article “Correcting a Style Guide” in today’s Inside Higher Ed, reporter Jennifer Epstein writes:
Scholars turn to style manuals for guidance in authoring error-free manuscripts, but what happens when the manual itself is laden with errors?
Users of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association are trying to answer that question now, after the [...]

Workshop: Healing Art of Writing

The Healing Art of Writing:
A Creative Workshop For Poets and Writers With a Focus on the Medical Experience (Other Subjects Welcome)
June 27 – July 2, 2010
On the idyllic campus of Dominican University, just North of San Francisco
Faculty: Rachel Naomi Remen, MD; Jane Hirshfield; Terese Svoboda; Vanetta Masson, RN; John Fox, CPT; Joan Baranow; David Watts, [...]

9,000 and Counting!

NursingWriting has now welcomed over 9,000 visitors, with September 2009 as the busiest month ever–1, 197 visitors–since the blog was launched in 2008.
Our thanks to the nurse writers and editors who visit and who send us calls for submissions to conferences and journals that we can share with the nursing world.

CNN: $5 Billion in New Fed ARRA Grants

According to a news item today on the CNN Web site:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama, in an effort to stimulate the economy and support critical research, will announce $5 billion in grants when he visits the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, according to an administration official.
President Obama and Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will announce [...]

Chronicle: Elsevier Unveils New Grant-Finding Service

Reported  in the Chronicle of Higher Education:

The scientific publisher Elsevier today started SciVal Funding, a Web-based search service to help American institutions locate grants, particularly collaborative and multidisciplinary ones. The service joins the company’s SciVal Spotlight, a strategy tool aimed at revealing university-research strengths and weaknesses — at a price, The Chronicle reported in June, [...]

Personal Narratives & Healthcare Education

An interesting article posted on the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine Web site, Inviting in the Life World: Illness Narratives and Personal and Creative Writing in Medical Education, by Jessica Singer Early and Meredith DeCosta. The abstract reads:
This paper shares a historical framework for understanding the inclusion of literature and creative writing courses in medical [...]