J Communication Healthcare Seeks Senior Ed Assistant

The Journal of Communication in Healthcare (Taylor & Francis Publishing: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ycih20/current) is looking to fill the Senior Editorial Assistant position. This is an exciting opportunity for educators, practitioners and researchers in healthcare communication who would like to help promote this topic and steer the discourse in this field. The Senior Editorial Assistant will be eligible …

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Scholarly Writing Retreat: An NLN Mentoring Program

Scholarly Writing Retreat: An NLN Mentoring Program APPLICATIONS NOW BEING ACCEPTED Weekend Retreat: November 10 - 11, 2018 (starts at noon on Saturday and ends at 3pm on Sunday) Location: NLN Headquarters - Washington, DC Leader: Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN Application Deadline: Friday, August, 10, 2018 (Applicants will be notified within 2 …

Propose/Edit Special Issue of SAGE Open Nursing

Propose a new Special Collection for SON     SAGE Open Nursing (SON) is seeking qualified researchers to propose and guest edit Special Collections. Proposals for Special Collections can be focused around a topic of your choosing, provided it falls within the scope of the journal and is an area of high current interest. Submit …

Guest Edit “Inquiry” (SAGE)

Guest edit Inquiry       Inquiry (5-Year Impact Factor: 0.737*) is seeking qualified researchers to propose and guest edit a Special Collection in their area of expertise. Email your proposed topic or complete the online form below. If you have any questions regarding your proposal, please don't hesitate to contact me. Submit your proposal …

NLN Writing Retreat

NLN Scholarly Writing Retreat Application Submission Sponsored by the NLN | Chamberlain Center for the Advancement of the Science of Nursing Education, the NLN Scholarly Writing Retreat is designed to help nurse educators enhance writing skills and disseminate research findings and other work in scholarly publications. Much more than the two-day intensive workshop that anchors …

Ghost Story

If you're in the mood for a nurse-themed ghost story, try Ellen Glasgow's "The Shadowy Third." As described in a brief synopsis: "In 'The Shadowy Third' the first-person narrator, Miss Randolph, is employed as Mrs. Maradick's nurse by her husband Doctor Maradick. Miss Randolph comes to see Mrs. Maradick as a victim and not as …

Warning: Predatory Conference Organizers

If you thought it was difficult to assess whether or not a solicitation to submit a manuscript to an online open-access journal is legitimate, now comes the spawn of predatory journals: predatory conferences. To help us sort out the claims of conference participation solicitations, Jeffrey Beall's ScholarlyOA web site provides a draft of criteria for identifying …

Best Wishes for the Holidays

NursingWriting goes on holiday hiatus, but we wish our readers the greetings of the season and best wishes for the new year!

ANF 10,000 Nurses on Boards Coalition

Visibility and voice are important themes in the history of nursing. Nursing silence and invisibility doesn't just impair the profession of nursing; it also deprives health professions and society in general from important insights and advocacy. The 10,000 Nurses on Boards Coalition with the American Nurses Foundation is a national initiative to promote, prepare, and …

Call for Comment: NIH-wide Strategic Plan

National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director Bethesda, MD 20892 Date: July 22, 2015 Dear NIH Stakeholders: In order to advance the NIH mission, we are developing an NIH-wide Strategic Plan. The goal of this 5-year plan is to outline a vision for biomedical research that ultimately extends healthy life and reduces illness and …