AJN 2013 Book of the Year Awards
Since 1969, AJN has been announcing its annual list of the best in nursing publishing. The most valuable texts of each year are chosen by AJN’s panel of judges. Only books published between August of the prior year and August of the award year are eligible. To quote AJN‘s editor-in-chief Shawn Kennedy, our Book of the Year awards, announced each year in our January issue, “are sought after by authors and publishers . . . the awards give us the opportunity to acknowledge high-quality publications.”
Below you can find the 2013 first-place winner for each of the 19 categories. To see a listing of all winners (there are 2nd and 3rd place winners for each category as well), please click this link.
This year’s 1st-place award winners:
- Advanced Practice Nursing – Outcome Assessment in Advanced Practice Nursing, 3rd edition, by Ruth M. Kleinpell
- Child Health – Teen Suicide Risk: A Practitioner Guide to Screening, Assessment, and Management, by Cheryl A. King, Cynthia Ewell Foster, and Kelly M. Rogalski
- Community–Public Health – Contemporary Health Promotion in Nursing Practice, by Bonnie Raingruber
- Consumer Health – In the Shadows: How to Help Your Seriously Ill Adult Child, by Patricia Ringos Beach and Beth E. White
- Critical Care-Emergency Nursing – Pass CCRN!, 4th edition, by Robin Donohoe Dennison
- Environmental Health – Disaster Nursing and Emergency Preparedness: for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Terrorism and Other Hazards, 3rd edition, edited by Tener Goodwin Veenema
- History and Public Policy – Exploring Rituals in Nursing: Joining Art and Science, by Zane Robinson Wolf
- Information Technology/Informatics – Health Informatics: An Interprofessional Approach, by Ramona Nelson and Nancy Staggers
- Maternal–Child Nursing/Childbirthing – Perinatal Nursing, 4th edition, edited by Kathleen Rice Simpson and Patricia A. Creehan
- Medical–Surgical Nursing – Toxic Nursing: Managing Bullying, Bad Attitudes, and Total Turmoil, by Cheryl Dellasega and Rebecca L. Volpe
- Nursing Education/Continuing Education – Strengths-Based Nursing Care: Health and Healing for Person and Family, by Laurie N. Gottlieb
- Nursing Management and Leadership – Toxic Nursing: Managing Bullying, Bad Attitudes, and Total Turmoil, by Cheryl Dellasega and Rebecca L. Volpe
- Nursing Research – Middle Range Theory for Nursing, 3rd edition, edited by Mary Jane Smith and Patricia R. Liehr
- Palliative Care and Hospice – Cancer Symptom Management, 4th edition, by Connie Henke Yarbro, Debra Wujcik, and Barbara Holmes Gobel
- Professional Issues – Creating and Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education, by Cynthia Clark
- Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing – PsychNotes: Clinical Pocket Guide, 4th edition, by Darlene D. Pederson
- Public Interest and Creative Works – The American Nurse, photographs and interviews by Carolyn Jones
There were no winners in the Electronic Media and Gerontologic Nursing categories.
Proud of AJN’s history of awarding excellence in publishing in nursing. This list is stellar. Congratulations to all the winners. Lots to read in 2014.