Walt Whitman’s Birthday

Today marks the anniversary of the birth of poet Walt Whitman, who during the American Civil War served as a nurse in military hospitals. Here, an excerpt from his poem "The Wound-Dresser" in the book of his wartime poetry, Drum Taps: I dress a wound in the side, deep, deep; But a day or two …

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CFP: SERI Conferences

The South-East Research Institute is now accepting submissions for upcoming conferences. SERI conferences bring together academics, health care professionals, industrials, entrepreneurs and business leaders to share news, views and developments and to analyze strategic developments in health care administration, business and technology, to disseminate scientific discovery to promote innovation and inspire change. The conferences offer …

Review: Wood & Ross-Kerr, Basic Steps in Planning Nursing Research

Wood, M. J., & Ross-Kerr, J. C. (2011).  Basic steps in planning nursing research:  From question to proposal (7th Ed.).  Sudbury, MA:  Jones and Bartlett Publishing. 511 pp. Wood and Ross-Kerr, both nursing faculty members at the University of Alberta, have developed a guide for planning nursing research in their 2011 edition of Basic Steps …

CFS: Alternative and Complementary Therapies

Alternative and Complementary Therapies provides the latest information on evaluating alternative therapies and integrating them into your clinical practice. Topics include: botanical medicine, vitamins and supplements, nutrition and diet, mind-body medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, ayurveda, indigenous medicine systems, homeopath, naturopathy, yoga & meditation, manual therapies, energy medicine, and spirituality and health. Journal features …

How Reliable Is Peer Reviewed Health Science Research?

Two articles questioning the reliability of peer-reviewed research came to our attention recently. David H. Freeman's "Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science" (Atlantic Monthly, November 2010) asserts that "much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors--to a striking extent--still drawing upon misinformation in their …

Nurse Valinoti/Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine

Recommended reading, Eileen Valinoti's first-person narrative on the Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine: After graduating from nursing school in 1954, I went back home until a hospital apartment became available. My mother bragged about my achievement to all the neighbors (my nursing expertise; my brilliant grades; my job offers overflowing in the mailbox). Our …

CFS: Paradigm Shift

Paradigm Shift is a new interdisciplinary peer-reviewed online journal of essays that challenge the basic assumptions underlying much research about peoples of African descent, particularly, but not limited to legacy Black Americans. The research under investigation may be in the social and behavioral sciences, the life and biomedical sciences, or the arts and humanities. Paradigm …

Essay Competition: Mental Health and Substance Use

Mental Health and Substance Use announces its 2011 Essay Competition. Closing Date: 01 December 2011 As well as prizes for students who are undertaking, or have recently completed, a mental health and substance use (coexisting, dual diagnosis, co-occurring, co-morbid) course, at any level of study, there is a section for new writers who have not …

Chronicle: Budget Straits Mean Grant-Success Rate Will Hit All-Time Low, NIH Warns

Reported yesterday in the Chronicle of Higher Education: Budget cuts forced by Congress will probably mean that university medical researchers seeking federal funds will have their lowest success rate in history, National Institutes of Health officials told lawmakers on Wednesday. Only about one in six grant applications to the NIH are expected to be approved, …

Summer Break

NursingWriting now begins its summer mode, with fewer and less frequent postings. We hope your summer is productive and restorative. -TLL