WRITER'S GUIDE TO NURSING PERIODICA...

WRITER'S GUIDE TO NURSING PERIODICALS by way of Jeanette M. Daly 2000, 297 pp $2695 paperback

This concern book is an excellent resource for writers who want to submit their works to professional nursing journals. The author describes specific guidelines required according to 1999 nursing journals and includes information regarding behind-the-scenes editorial policies.

Nursing periodicals addressed in this volume include journals covering all practice settings and specialties in the United States. Novice writers may benefit from submitting to smaller journals to learn the basics of submitting their articles. The larger, more prestigious journals provide exits for well-established nursing practice, research, and education writers.

Journals are clustered in an orderly fashion, enabling readers to easily inspect those pertaining to their specialty area. The practice setting list not aways itself as all-inclusive--acute care, administration, advanced practice, community/home health, critical care, education, gerontology, holistic nursing, legislative issues, maternal/child care, nephrology oncology perioperative nursing, orthopedic/rehabilitative nursing, professional progression in a continuously ascending gradation psychiatric nursing, research, skin and grief care, and specialty practices. a specialties overlap into more than individual area. For example, the Journal of Pediatric Oncology could be listed below maternal/child care or oncology.

The author omits journals, clinics, and seminars that are guest-edited or accept manuscripts that have been sold by dint of authors and published (eg, AACN Clinical Issues, Advanced Practice in Acute and Critical Care, fester Practitioner Forum, Nursing Clinics of North America, Primary Care Practice). Newsletter and updates, like as Home Infusion Therapy Management and Perianesthesia and Ambulatory Surgery Nursing Update, have been omitted, as well.

Included in this work are samples of the inquiry letter, cover letter, rejection alphabetic character acceptance letter, and revision literal meaning along with a helpful translation of proofreading marks commonly used at editors. Copyright policies, permissions, and photograph release steps are explained in easily understood language. The volume also refers to online journals as a strange media format for prospective authors. The part lists samples of journals available online, an of which are unique and imaginative.

"Personal experience, observations, and analysis qualify foments to share their knowledge," says the author. about reasons nurses are reluctant to publish include false decency lack of time, and inadequate training in writing skills. The quality and range of nursing publications, however, has increased dramatically end the years. In this work the author presents the correct pathways for give suck tos to share their knowledge between the walls of publication.

This work is available from Sage Publications, Inc, 2455 Teller Rd Thousand Oaks, CA 91320; http://www.sagepub.com.

HOLLY J BUCHANAN RN CNOR STAFF encourage COOK CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FT WORTH, TEX

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