CFS: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice (PPNP) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that explores the multiple relationships between nursing and health policy. PPNP serves as a major source of data-based study, policy analysis and discussion on timely, relevant policy issues for nurses in a broad variety of roles and settings, and for others who are interested …

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CFP: CT Nursing Research Alliance

16th Annual Nursing Research & Evidence Based Practice Conference: Outcome-Focused Innovations Friday, October 5, 2012, Hartford Hospital Education & Resource Center, 560 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT Abstracts are requested for either oral presentation or table-top poster display. Oral presentations should be based on completed research. Table-top poster displays may be based on research in progress. …

15 Minute Manager

Over the course of this past semester I worked with a cohort of full-time clinical nursing faculty to develop a daily writing habit. The Write Now! team contracted to write each day for 30 minutes. First thing every morning I sent them an email to describe what I was working on that day (I wanted …

NLN Scholarly Writing Retreat

The NLN Foundation has scheduled a Fall Writing Retreat to be held from November 3 - December 2, 2012 at the Mt. Royal Hotel and Conference Center in Baltimore, MD. Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN will be the facilitator. Leslie Block of the NLN will also be onsite in Baltimore, assisting participants with their …

Chronicle: Good Deeds, Most Punished

I'm getting caught up on reading back issues of the Chronicle of Higher Education (which I highly recommend for all faculty, as well as daily free updates from Inside Higher Ed), which recently included three columns by David Perlmutter on the theme "Good Deeds That Are Most Punished" (traps for junior, tenure-track faculty to avoid): …

CFS: Telemedicine and e-Health

Telemedicine and e-Health has expanded coverage, publishing 10 issues per year, providing readers with an understanding of new technology applications and evidence-based usage, and a new section on Medical Connectivity. This new section will include roundtables, initiatives in industry, tutorials, webwatch, commentaries, new services, and people in the news. In addition to high quality cutting-edge …

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 …

CFS: Mindfulness

Mindfulness Editor-in-Chief: Nirbhay N. Singh Advances research, clinical practice, and theory on mindfulness. This journal publishes peer-reviewed papers that examine the latest research findings and best practices in mindfulness. It explores the nature and foundations of mindfulness, its mechanisms of actions, and its use across cultures. In addition, Mindfulness features papers that address issues involving …

CFS: Service User Involvement (Publ Mgmt Rev)

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Public Management Review: Service User Involvement in Healthcare Editors: Graeme Currie, Warwick Business School; Nellie El Enany, Warwick Business School; Martin Kitchener, Cardiff Business School Service user involvement has become a prominent area of healthcare policy across much of the developed world. Recent studies of this phenomenon …

Clinical Trials: Registered Late, Published Late, Smaller Than Planned

Kent Anderson, writing in the The Scholarly Kitchen, observes: For any major medical study, the stakes are high — the results can affect how patients take care of themselves and how physicians treat disease, for years if not decades. Yet all is not well in the land of medical research, judging from a recent analysis …