Tappen, R. M. (2011). Advanced nursing research: From theory to practice. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. 504 pp. Tappen, a nurse and active faculty member, presents a new text entitled Advanced Nursing Research: From Theory to Practice. Based on the title, I expected to find a book suitable for advanced graduate-level students who are [...]
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Nurse writer Cortney Davis‘s The Heart’s Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing, her edited collection that came out from Kent State University Press in 2009, has been awarded the American Journal of Nursing‘s Book of the Year Award. If the term “essay” may be offputting to some readers, take heart: These are personal essays, in [...]
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Writer’s Guide to Nursing Periodicals, by Jeanettee M. Daly. Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2000. ISBN 0-7679-1492-7 Earlier this decade, Sage Publications published Jeanette M. Daly’s Writer’s Guide to Nursing Periodicals, a handy single volume that provided information about journals’ focus, publication facts, manuscript preparation and submission processes, referrees, copyrights, and indexing, by arranging the journals [...]
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A Nurse’s Guide to Presenting and Publishing: Dare to Share, by Kathleen T. Heinrich (Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett, 2008), 438 pp. No one becomes a nurse because he or she loves to write. People become nurses and nursing faculty because they want to provide caring and compassionate healing to patients, improve the quality of [...]
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