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  [Excerpt from] The Road to Leadership

  Carol J. Huston

  This item record pertains to an excerpt from Choose Your Battles Carefully, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

  About this book: The Road to Leadership presents nine valuable leadership lessons from award-winning author and international nurse leader Carol Huston. This full-color handbook packs big wisdom from a leader who learned her lessons the hard way and now guides others to their own paths as confident, successful leaders. From finding a mentor to learning the art of communication, this engaging book will help you break free of professional limits and define your own effective leadership skills.

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  [Excerpt from] The Nurse Manager's Survival Guide (4th ed.)

  Tina M. Marrelli

  This item record pertains to an excerpt from The Nurse Manager's Survival Guide (4th ed.), which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

  About this book: Nurse managers: are you struggling with the complexity of your role?

  As a nurse, you are already a manager. You must manage patient caseloads and care plans as well as supervise aides, technicians, and other care providers. But moving from this type of organic management to a defined nurse manager role is not a natural progression. Nurse managers must command a vast, diverse, and robust skill set, and those skills must first be defined, explained, and operationalized for success. In an environment that offers new managers little support Where do you turn?

  The Nurse Manager's Survival Guide (4th ed.) provides an overview of a nurse manager's major roles and responsibilities - all the fundamentals needed for success in one easy-to-use, consolidated, practical reference. From tips on building the right team to budgeting basics, time-management tools, and advice on taking care of yourself (and your team), author Tina Marrelli supplies the resources nurse managers need to excel in day-to-day operations.

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  [Excerpt from] A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Academic Promotion and Tenure

  Constance E. McIntosh, Cynthia M. Thomas, and David E. McIntosh

  This item record pertains to an excerpt from A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Academic Promotion and Tenure, which is provided free of charge by the publisher.

  About this book: A Nurse's Step-by-Step Guide to Academic Promotion & Tenure is a practical guide to understanding and navigating the complex and often stressful tenure process. Using their combined 50 years of experience in higher education, authors Constance McIntosh, Cynthia Thomas, and David McIntosh demystify the promotion and tenure process by providing all the tools you need. Whether you are a beginning professor seeking promotion or on a tenure track, this book will ease readers' anxiety and help them:

  • Increase scholarly productivity
  • Maneuver through the IRB process
  • Teach successfully in different settings and make the most of student evaluations
  • Balance work and personal responsibilities and commitments
  • Select your mentor
  • Navigate the promotion and tenure review process
  • Negotiate a new tenure or promotion agreement

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  27th International Nursing Research Congress 2016 Conference Proceedings

  Sigma Theta Tau International

  The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) conducted its 27th International Nursing Research Congress in Cape Town, South Africa, 21-25 July 2016. More than 700 nurses from around the world gathered at the congress, which had as its theme "Leading Global Research: Advancing Practice, Advocacy, and Policy."

  Program objectives of the 27th International Nursing Research Congress include:

  • Interpret research findings' influence on nursing practice, advocacy, and/or policy.
  • Enhance nursing knowledge through research or evidence-based practice to impact nursing outcomes.
  • Examine the translation of evidence into practice or education.
  • Identify opportunities for international collaboration in nursing research, evidence-based practice, education, and health policy.

  These conference proceedings are a collection of abstracts submitted by the authors and presented at the research congress. To promptly disseminate the information and ideas, participants submitted descriptive information and abstracts of 300 words or less. Each oral and poster presentation abstract was peer-reviewed in a double-blind process in which three scholars used specific scoring criteria to judge the abstracts in accordance with the requirements of STTI's Guidelines for Electronic Abstract Submission.

  The opinions, advice, and information contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of STTI or its members. The enhanced abstracts provided in these proceedings were taken directly from authors' submissions, without alteration. While all due care was taken in the compilation of these proceedings, STTI does not warrant that the information is free from errors or omission, or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy, and currency of the information.

  Format for Citing Papers

  Author. (Year). Title of paper. In Title of conference proceedings (page numbers). Place of publication: Publisher.

  Example:

  Smith, C. C. (2015). Nursing research and global impact. In Engaging Colleagues: Improving Global Health Outcomes: Proceedings of the 25th International Nursing Research Congress (pp. xxx-xxx). Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.

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  26th International Nursing Research Congress 2015 Conference Proceedings

  Sigma Theta Tau International

  The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) conducted its 26th International Nursing Research Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico from 23-27 July 2015. More than 800 nurses from around the world gathered at the congress, which had as its theme "Question Locally, Engage Regionally, Apply Globally."

  These conference proceedings are a collection of abstracts submitted by the authors and presented at the research congress. To promptly disseminate the information and ideas, participants submitted descriptive information and abstracts of at least 300, but no more than 1,500 words. Each oral and poster presentation abstract was peer-reviewed in a double-blind process in which three scholars used specific scoring criteria to judge the abstracts in
  /="/">accordance with the requirements of STTI's Guidelines for Electronic Abstract Submission.

  This PDF ebook is amazingly searchable. In reflection of that, you will not find a lot of internal linking. Simply select the search option and type any search keyword or name you want to explore.

  Finally, the opinions, advice, and information contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of STTI or its members. The enhanced abstracts provided in these proceedings were taken directly from authors' submissions, without alteration. While all due care was taken in the compilation of these proceedings, STTI does not warrant that the information is free from errors or omission, or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy, and currency of the information.

  Format for Citing Papers

  Author. (Year). Title of paper. In Title of conference proceedings (page numbers). Place of publication: Publisher.

  Example:

  Smith, C. C. (2015). Nursing research and global impact. In Engaging Colleagues: Improving Global Health Outcomes: Proceedings of the 25th International Nursing Research Congress (pp. xxx-xxx). Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.

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  25th International Nursing Research Congress 2014 Conference Proceedings and Enhanced Abstracts of Oral and Poster Presentations

  Sigma Theta Tau International

  Sigma Theta Tau International the Honor Society of Nursing (Sigma) conducted its 25th International Nursing Research Congress at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 24-28 July 2014. More than 800 nurses from around the world gathered at the congress, which had as its theme "Engaging Colleagues: Improving Global Health Outcomes."

  These conference proceedings are a collection of abstracts submitted by the authors and presented at the research congress. To promptly disseminate the information and ideas, participants submitted descriptive information and abstracts of 1500 words or less. Each oral and poster presentation abstract was peer-reviewed in a double-blind process in which three scholars used specific scoring criteria to judge the abstracts in accordance with the requirements of Sigma's Guidelines for Electronic Abstract Submission.

  The opinions, advice, and information contained in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of Sigma or its members. The enhanced abstracts provided in theses proceedings were taken directly from authors' submissions, without alteration. While all due care was taken in the compilation of these proceedings, Sigma does not warrant that the information is free from errors or omission, or accept any liability in relation to the quality, accuracy, and currency of the information.

  Format for Citing Papers Author. (Year). Title of paper. In Title of conference proceedings (page numbers). Place of publication: Publisher.

  Example: Smith, C. C. (2015). Nursing Research and Global Impact. In Engaging Colleagues: Improving Global Health Outcomes: Proceedings of the 25th International Nursing Research Congress (pp. xxx-xxx). Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International.

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  Immigrant Women and Their Health: An Olive Paper

  Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Juliene G. Lipson, Marjorie A. Muecke, and Gloria R. Smith

  Migration and population relocation are part of human history. However, recent national and international issues create a need to pay more attention to immigration and its effects on immigrants and the societies in which immigrants resettle. Women constitute about 80% of the world's total of immigrants and refugees. Women immigrants are less visible than are men immigrants. They often receive less health care and care of inferior quality; and they have received less scholarly attention. As a result their health may be compromised.

  The overall goal of this paper, which we are calling an olive paper:

  1. is to raise nurses' consciousness about the urgent need to address health care issues of immigrants in general and immigrant women in particular.
  2. We hope that leaders in nursing practice, education, research, and administration will review this document. We also believe that it will be of interdisciplinary interest. Those providing health care to minority, marginalized, and diverse populations, as well as those with interest in culture and health, may find this monograph helpful. It is also intended for policy makers and for state and national legislators. Therefore, the author's' overall goal is to stimulate interest in dialogue about these issues and, in turn, to prepare readers to influence policy makers to improve health care for immigrant women.