Posted on October 29, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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.
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Posted on October 28, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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 [...]
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Posted on October 13, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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 [...]
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Posted on October 12, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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, [...]
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Posted on October 3, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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.
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Posted on September 30, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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 [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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, [...]
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Posted on September 22, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
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 [...]
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Posted on September 16, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
OLIVER SACKS: Hallucinations
The Robert B. Silvers Lecture
Monday, September 21, 2009, 7:00 pm
The New York Public Library, Celeste Bartos Forum
Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Street
Neurologist and author Oliver Sacks examines how the normal brain, if deprived of perceptual input, may generate illusory sensations—as with the visual hallucinations of the blind, or the musical hallucinations of [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2009 by Thomas Lawrence Long
This brief review by Marilyn Stasio appeared in the 6 Sept. 2009 issue of the New York Times books section:
Readers who can’t get enough of Maisie Dobbs, the intrepid World War I battlefield nurse in Jacqueline Winspear’s novels, or Hester Latterly, who saw action in the Crimean War in a series of novels by Anne [...]
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