New Academic Year

Many readers of NursingWriting (but not all by any means) are associated with academic institutions, where we are engaged in the beginning of a new academic year.
Sunday’s New York Times included advice to new college students from respected professors. Excerpts here:
I would advise students to take a composition course even if they have tested out [...]

Online Community: Global Health Nursing, Midwifery

On behalf of Partners In Health, the University of Maryland’s School of Nursing Office of Global Health, Regis College School of Nursing and Health Professions, and MGH Institute of Health Professions School of Nursing, you are invited to join an online community for Global Health Nursing and Midwifery at GHD Online:
 http://www.ghdonline.org/nursing/
This community was created to [...]

Podcast: Michele Lamont on the Curious World of Academic Judgment

Michele Lamont, author of How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Harvard University Press), a study of how scholars and scholarly panels actually engage in review of submissions (like research proposals and grant applications), is interviewed in a podcast produced by Harvard University Press.

A Message from Canadian Healthcare Professionals to Americans

In this video, Canadian physicians and nurses describe the real Canadian healthcare system to Americans (not the cartoon Canadian health care portrayed in some American media and public discourse).

NYU Literature, Arts, Medicine Database

Added today to the NursingWriting “blinks” list is the Literature, Arts & Medicine Database initiated in 1993 by medical humanities faculty at NYU.
This index of literary texts, visual art, and media/performance touches on a broad range of representations of the body, wellness, illness, disease, and the healing professions. New additions and annotations are always welcome.
The [...]

New NIH Director, New Priorities

Francis S. Collins, physician and geneticist, has reported for duty at the National Institutes of Health as its new director .  According to the Chronicle of Higher Education he brings with him new priorities:
On Monday, he listed for his staff five goals for his tenure as director, including ensuring a “stable and predictable” supply of federal [...]

Tutorial for New 6th Ed of APA Style

The new 6th edition of the APA Publication Manual and style guide now has an accompanying Flash video tutorial provided by the American Psychological Association. The Web link to this tutorial is also permanently included in our “blinks” list.
This new edition employs a research-to-publication process structure in its organization of the chapters.
This new edition takes into account [...]

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 [...]

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.

4000 Plus and Counting!

The Dow may be dropping, but at NursingWriting business is booming.
Late in January we noted that we had passed the 3000th visitor since we launched in summer 2008.
In a little over a month since then, we’ve welcomed another thousand visitors.
Thanks to you for your interest. Thanks to you for your research, scholarship, and creative writing. [...]