CFP: AACN Conferences

Calls for proposals from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing Faculty Practice Pre-Conference - February 20-21, 2013 Call for Abstracts: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences/2013/13FacPracCFA.pdf Deadline: December 12, 2012   Master's Education Conference - February 21-23, 2013 Call for Abstracts: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences/2013/13MastersCFA.pdf Deadline: December 12, 2012   Hot Issues Conference - April 11-13, 2013 Call for Abstracts: http://www.aacn.nche.edu/conferences/2013/13HotIssuesCFA.pdf Deadline: …

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Mentoring and “Secret Knowledge”

In another in her series of articles on mentoring junior faculty toward tenure, Kerry Ann Rockquemore discusses this week in Inside Higher Ed the "secret knowledge" that one must discern to "Sink or Swim." The secret knowledge is the hidden information about how things really work and the strategies to actually be successful. In other …

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 …