Summer Hiatus

It has been a busy year for NursingWriting, and as the academic year has drawn to a close, we want to thank all those who make NursingWriting possible: the UConn School of Nursing, journal editors and conference organizers, and our readers. We now shift into summer hiatus, with fewer (and perhaps less frequent) postings. This [...]

Taos Writing Retreat 2012

The Thirteenth Annual Taos Writing Retreat for Health Professionals, sponsored by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office of Continuing Medical Education and the Permanente Journal, Kaiser Permanente, will take place August 5-11, 2012 at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. The retreat encourages individuals to pursue their writing [...]

Post-Doc: Same-Sex Couples & Others

Pacific Graduate School of Psychology at Palo Alto University (PGSP/PAU), which has two APA-accredited doctoral programs (PhD and a joint PsyD with the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University), is recruiting a full-time postdoctoral fellow to work directly with Dr. Kimberly Balsam on an NICHD-funded grant examining legal status, stigma, health and well-being among same-sex [...]

The Professor Is In

Karen L. Kelsky is The Professor of TheProfessorIsIn, a Web site that augments Kelsky’s consulting practice as an advisor to advanced doctoral students and junior faculty. She came to my attention through her essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “To: Professors; Re: Your Advisees,” in which she laments the lack of robust professional advising [...]

Nursing in the (Good) News

Nursing in 2011 was in the good news. First, for the tenth straight year, nursing was identified as the most trusted profession by respondents to a Gallup poll: http://www.gallup.com/poll/151460/Record-Rate-Honesty-Ethics-Members-Congress-Low.aspx  Second, the Institute of Medicine announced that the most-read of its publications in 2011 was its 2010 report The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health.

2011 in Review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,100 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many [...]

Holiday Hiatus

Below are the last two posts for 2011. Thanks for a productive year to our readers, editors, and conference organizers. Here’s hoping that 2012 is a year filled with exciting health innovations, disseminated widely, and adopted universally.  

Google Scholar Citations Now Open

Google has announced that its Google Scholar Citations application is now open to all: http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2011/11/google-scholar-citations-open-to-all.html In addition to automatically identifying your publications available via the Web (including Google Books), Google Scholar Citations allows you to customize your own database, adding conference papers or publications that might not be readily available otherwise. Google Scholar Citations tracks [...]

Keeping Track of Your Ms Submissions

How do you keep track of manuscripts that you are trying to place with journals? To which journals have you already sent a manuscript (and which journals are next on your list)? How long has a manuscript been in the hands of an editor or reviewers (and is it time to withdraw it to submit [...]

Costa Book Awards, Nurse Newcomer

The Guardian announces today: An intensive care nurse at Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London will compete for one of the UK’s biggest literary prizes after her debut novel was shortlisted in the Costa book awards. Christie Watson, who has been a nurse for 18 years, is nominated in the first book category of [...]