Nursing calls for papers / publications

Call for Authors: Journal of Trauma Nursing

Official journal of the Society of Trauma Nurses (STN)

Authors needed: All those concerned with the practice of trauma nursing in the areas of clinical practice, research, education, health policy, and administration are invited to submit manuscripts on the following topics:

International Trauma Issues
Collaboration Between Trauma Practitioners and Other Disciplines
Acute Care Surgery and Trauma
Magnet Designation and Trauma
Perioperative Trauma Care
Ethical Issues in Trauma
Clinical Care Across the Trauma Continuum
Trauma Research
Trauma Rehab

Please visit the JTN Editorial Manager site at http://JTN.edmgr.com for more information or to submit a manuscript, or contact the editor with questions at JTNeditor@katschroeter.com

Call for Papers on the Topic of Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century for the Canadian Journal of Nursing Research

Deadline: July 15 2012

Canadian Journal of Nursing Research
CALL FOR PAPERS: Nursing Informatics in the 21st Century
March 2013 (Volume 45 No 1)

Health information systems (e.g., nursing information systems, electronic health record systems, personal health record systems, telehealth/telenursing systems) are being implemented globally to improve the quality, efficiency, and safety of patient care. Increasingly, nurses are involved in the design, development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of health information systems to support patient care, nursing, and the work of health professionals.

For this issue of CJNR we invite papers that focus on issues in nursing informatics and health/biomedical informatics as they relate to nursing. We welcome reports on completed qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research, literature reviews, systematic reviews, and syntheses. Papers on theoretical, methodological, and current trends in nursing informatics are also welcome. Examples of topics include the following: competencies in nursing terminologies; competencies in nursing informatics; implementation of electronic health record systems and its effect on nursing work; patient-nurse use of personal health record systems; disease management systems; systems usability as it relates to nursing personnel and nursing care; impacts of systems on nursing workflow; decision-support systems for nurses; importance of health and information literacy; and mobile health and nursing. We welcome submissions from nurses (e.g., nursing informatics specialists, nurse administrators), health informatics specialists, and nursing/health and biomedical informatics researchers whose focus is nursing informatics. Manuscripts describing international approaches to nursing informatics issues are welcome.

Guest Editors: Dr. Elizabeth Borycki and Dr. Noreen Frisch
Submission deadline: July 15, 2012

Please submit papers online Using CJNR E-journal Press at http://cjnr.msubmit.net

For assistance: cjnr.nursing@mcgill.ca

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing: Sexual and Reproductive Health

The issue of sexual and reproductive health is a major area of clinical practice. It encompasses a broad range of topics – sexuality, sexual behavior, altered body image, sexual and reproductive pathologies and infections, HIV/AIDS, abortion, sexual abuse as well as sexual health services, sex education and the impact of illness, social deprivation and age upon sexuality and sexual expression. Nurses are increasingly involved in work with patients, clients and communities that have sexual and reproductive needs – developing a holistic approach to care is essential, as well as increasing the evidence base for sexual and reproductive health interventions. This special issue aims to make a substantial contribution to this evidence base and also celebrate the wide ranging nature of sexual and reproductive health nursing practice.

Scope Researchers, practitioners and educators are invited to submit a manuscript based on a research study, literature review or discursive topic related to any area of Sexual and Reproductive health that has implications for nursing practice.

Manuscripts are especially welcome in the following areas (although other papers will be considered):

Child and adolescent sexual health issues, HIV/AIDS, Ageing and sexual health, Sexuality and chronic illnesses, Mental health and sexuality, Sex education, Sexual health in marginalized populations, Sexuality and clinical practice, Establishing/evaluating sexual health care or services, sexually transmitted infections, sexual health and pregnancy

All manuscripts will be expected to discuss the implications for clinical practice and adhere to the Journal of Clinical Nursing guidelines for authors available at www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/jocn

Submission The deadline for the receipt of manuscripts is December 2012 with anticipated publication in late 2013. Manuscripts should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jcnur

All papers for the special issue should have the prefix ‘SI – SRH’ before the title of the paper.

Further information
Please contact the editors for this edition; Professor Mark Hayter (m.hayter@hull.ac.uk) or Professor Alice Yuen Loke (hsaloke@inet.polyu.edu.hk).

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Recovery-Oriented Practice in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Guest Editors:
Kris A. McLoughlin,DNP, APRN, PMH-CNS, BC, CADC-II
Mary D. Moller DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

DEADLINE for article submission: AUGUST 1, 2012

In a 2005 Mental Health Declaration for Europe, the World Health Organization identified the need to “design and implement…mental health systems that promote…recovery.” According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Consensus Statement, Recovery is cited as the “single most important goal” for the mental health service delivery system (2006). Most recently, on December 22, 2011 the SAMHSA announced a new working definition of recovery as “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential”. Four major dimensions that support a life in recovery include health, home, purpose, and community along with 10 guiding principles: hope; person-driven; holistic; peer support; relationship and social networks; culturally-based and influenced; importance of addressing trauma; involving friends, family, community strengths, and responsibility; respect; and, the need for many pathways for recovery to occur.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is one of five national participants in a SAMHSA initiative to transform the concepts of recovery from a set of beliefs to recovery-oriented nursing practices. As a profession, psychiatric-mental health nursing focuses on the person with the disease or disorder (not the disease or disorder itself). We assist people, through recovery-oriented interventions to adapt to their world and find personal meaning and purpose in their own real-life experiences as community members. This special issue will focus on the state of the science: How Psychiatric Nursing is understanding, integrating and developing recovery-practices and programs; and, how these practices affect outcomes.

Manuscript submission may include, but are not limited to:

Innovative recovery-oriented program development
Development, implementation, and evaluation of recovery-oriented practices or components of recovery practice
First-person accounts of recovery practice and related outcomes

Data-based manuscripts, quality improvement studies, state of the science / systematic literature reviews preferred. All manuscripts should be translational in nature by including key practice points for psychiatric nurses that can be implemented in the institutional or community healthcare setting.

Call for Papers: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Get published! Submit your manuscript to Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice

Benefits of Publishing in this Journal

Rigorous peer review of your work
Prompt publishing
Guaranteed targeted, multidisciplinary audience
High visibility for maximum global exposure

Now Indexed in MEDLINE!

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 in nursing-related policy issues.

Submit Manuscripts in these Areas

You are invited to submit your manuscript on a broad variety of topics and issues, including (but not limited to):

Impact of health system change and health reform on nurses and nursing practice;
Legislation and regulations affecting the nursing workforce and nurses’ practice environments;
Nurses’ roles as policy-makers--as legislators, agency officials, advocates and political leaders;
The roles of nursing organizations in shaping policy nationally and globally;
Policy issues currently under debate in the nursing profession;
Advancing solutions to health care disparities;
Health care financing and reimbursement issues;
Comparative analysis of global nursing issues;
Policy issues related to interdisciplinary practice, education and regulation.

We welcome research-based articles, commentary, policy analysis, discussion, book and film reviews and letters to the editor.

Call for Articles: On the Edge--the Official Newsletter of the International Association of Forensic Nurses

IAFN Mission Statement

The mission of the IAFN is to provide leadership in forensic nursing practice by developing and disseminating information internationally about forensic nursing science.

Be an Author!

We welcome your article submissions to On the Edge. Consider it one of our primary avenues for networking and expanding the focus of forensic nursing practice and development. Please share your forensic nursing expertise with interested readers and colleagues around the world.

If you are a first time author or are simply not attuned to writing do not let this be a deterrent from sharing your expertise. We make every attempt to ensure your article reaches the appropriate audience and provide support and assistance whenever possible. See our Author Guidelines. When you send in an article, whether it is a case study, a research study, regional news or anything else, we want to be sure you are appropriately recognized. To this end, please include your name, credentials, type of work place, city and state along with three or four lines about yourself, as we include a brief bio at the end of every article .

Your contact information should include your name, address, and telephone and fax numbers, email address. Please be certain the information is accurate, as we may need to contact you for additional questions or clarification on your submission and its publication.

Guidelines and Style

The newsletter follows the style guidelines of the Psychological Association Publication Manual, 4th Edition. For assistance or additional questions, please contact the managing editor.

Article Submission Deadlines:

Issue Number Submission Deadline Publication Date

Volume 18 Issue 2 June 1st June 30th
Volume 18 Issue 3 September 1st September 30th
Volume 18 Issue 4 December 1st December 31st

Content

If you would like to discuss content or ideas, or if you already have an article prepared, please contact:

Janean Fossum, BSN, RN, CDDN
IAFN On The Edge Managing Editor
Nurse Consultant-Forensic Nurse
Certified Developmental Disabilities Nurse
P.O. Box 11053
Eugene, Oregon 97440
jfossum@epud.net

A Day in the Life of an Association of Rehabilitation Nurses Nurse Photo and Caption Contest

The old adage, “A picture paints a thousand words” couldn’t be more appropriate when it comes to capturing a day in the life of a rehabilitation nurse in a photo.

ARN wants to see your day, your stories, and your patients.

Introducing: A Day In the Life of an ARN Rehab Nurse Photo and Caption Contest

Here is how the contest works:

Your photograph must represent an aspect of rehabilitation nursing. Choose photos that show a typical day rather than a special event.

The photo must be submitted in electronic format (300 dpi/hi res).

An application form along with a short narrative (not to exceed 50 words) must accompany each photo submission.

If a child appears in the photo, it must be accompanied by a permission form signed by the guardian.

Must be an ARN member in order to participate.

All photos submitted will be considered for use in ARN publications, advertisements, Web site, etc. The photo and all accompanying materials must be received by ARN at info@rehabnurse.org no later than June 8, 2012.

To Submit an Entry

Complete the A Day In the Life of an ARN Rehab Nurse Photo and Caption Contest application form.

Upload each photo, application form, and photo release form for anyone pictured.

Submissions may also be sent by e-mail at info@rehabnurse.org.

You will receive an e-mail confirmation for each submission. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail within 3 business days, please contact the ARN office at 800.229.7530

All Participants Are Winners!

As a thank you for participating, we will give an extended month’s members for each photo submission up to 3 photos, although you can submit as many photos as you like.

ARN members will vote for their favorite photo and the top 4 photo submissions, along with the narratives, will be displayed during the ARN Annual Conference and Exhibit in Nashville.

First Prize
AMAZON Kindle Fire

Second Prize
$100 Amazon Gift Card

Third Prize
One year ARN Membership

Runner Up
$25 Starbucks Gift Card

All submissions will be recognized on www.rehabnurse.org and will become the property of ARN for use by the association.

Call for Manuscripts: Critical Care Insider

Have you ever thought about being published in a major journal? Now's your chance! Critical Care Insider is currently accepting articles.

To submit an article to the journal, follow the new online submission process: http://lwwesubmissions.edmgr.com.

Call for Manuscripts: Second Annual Special Issue of Nursing Economic$ on Staffing Based on Evidence

Target Issue: September/October 2012

Forging the Future of Staffing Based on Evidence 2012

What Do We Know?

The challenges we face in healthcare staffing continue to present opportunities for nurses to lead change and innovation. At the center of this movement must be evidence--research and data from experiences that become the framework upon which we determine the strategies, policies and practices that will serve the profession now and in the future.

This is an invitation to nurse researchers and industry and operational thought leaders alike to contribute to the art and science of staffing based on evidence. It is the intention of this special issue that it serves as a valuable resource to individuals and organizations who are committed to staffing excellence as well as those who have not yet embraced evidence-based staffing in healthcare. By sharing knowledge, experiences, and wisdom, we will demonstrate the patient, workforce, and financial outcomes that can be achieved through evidence-based staffing practices.

Manuscripts are due by June 1st, 2012

Send submissions to Special Issue Editors:

Karlene Kerfoot karlene@indy.rr.com

Kathy Douglas Kathy.s.douglas@gmail.com

Call for Papers: The Male Body in Medicine and Literature

Following the success of the recent collection The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (LUP 2011) Liverpool University Press have commissioned a companion volume entitled The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. This new collection will provide interdisciplinary essays that will explore the complex intersections between literature and the medical treatment of the male body. We wish to consider the wider cultural ramifications of the representation of the male body, health, sickness, masculinity and ‘manhood’ in order to further our understanding of gender studies, gender politics, science, medicine and literature.

The purpose of this book will be to survey the complex relations between literature and the medical treatment and representation of the male body from 1600 to the present day and we are seeking essays which offer a range of methodologies that will be interdisciplinary in their discussion of medicine of the male body, the cultural representation of male corporeality in sickness and in health, and the wider cultural ramifications of male health, its intersections with masculinity and manhood. We expect the essays to draw on a wide range of topics that have been informed by cross-pollinating disciplines including literature, history of medicine, gender studies and gay fiction. This collection will offer a major new analysis of the medical treatment and cultural representations of the healthy and sick male body from the early modern period to the present. This will be one of the first single-volume books to concentrate on the links between literature and medicine in their shared dedication to understanding the male body. The healthy male body has a complex relationship with ideas of masculinity, manhood and male power; plus, the health and strength of the male body is linked to ideas of nation at times of war and at times of peace; this book will seek to address these issues and more.

Essays might cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:

Male hysteria
Male consumptives
HIV/AIDS
War, conflict and the male body
Virility, fertility and impotence
Male nursing
The working class male body and medical experimentation
Urology
Disability
Mental health and the male body
Sexually transmitted diseases and the male body

Please submit articles for consideration between 5000 – 7000 words to Greta Depledge (depledgeg@aol.com) and Andrew Mangham (a.s.mangham@reading.ac.uk) by 1st December 2012.

Contributors should follow LUP’s house style, details of which can be found on their website:
http://www.liverpool-unipress.co.uk/html/howtopublish.asp