About Jacob Molyneux, senior editor/blog editor

Senior editor, American Journal of Nursing; editor of AJN Off the Charts.

Postcard from Cardiff: Diana Mason Takes the Pulse of Nursing in the UK

Cardiff Castle, Wales. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsc-07388

I’m in the UK, preparing to present at a debate tomorrow sponsored by the Royal College of Nursing for its annual International Nursing Research Conference in Cardiff, Wales. The debate will focus on the statement, ”This house believes that research should be published in the highest impact journals available.” (Here’s Wikipedia on the meaning of “impact factor,” if you want a rough idea of what’s involved.) I’m joining Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing at  Thames Valley University, in arguing the opposing position. We intend to win this debate! Attendees do vote. I’ll report the outcome tomorrow. 

But this morning, I was stunned by a story in London’s Daily Telegraph reporting that […]

2016-11-21T13:36:50-05:00March 26th, 2009|Nursing|0 Comments
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Risk of Mortality: 100 percent!

Doug Brandt, AJN associate editor

 

I’m ranting. That’s what a word curmudgeon does. I am curmudgeon, hear me rant:

 

I’m begging anyone who edits or writes for a scientific publication not to use the word “mortality” when a simple death would do the job. […]

2016-11-21T13:37:00-05:00March 25th, 2009|Nursing|1 Comment
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Publication in AJN Seen as Holy Grail by YouTube Songster

Here’s a YouTube video that’s come to our attention. It’s nice to know our cover could inspire a song. This might be a first!

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2016-11-21T13:37:16-05:00March 25th, 2009|students|0 Comments
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Next week from London…

AJN editor-in-chief Diana Mason is on vacation at an undisclosed location by the sea this week. Next week she’ll be blogging from a conference in London, where she’s scheduled to speak. (In the meantime, Off the Charts will have plenty of other posts. By the way, a fairly small percentage of our blog readers have taken the poll on nursing and the economy we posted last week. It takes about a second! Or tell us what you’d like a poll to ask, if this one doesn’t speak to your experience.)

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Diana Mason, AJN editor-in-chief

 

2016-11-21T13:37:31-05:00March 24th, 2009|Nursing|0 Comments
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The Invisible Experts: What Nurses Know About Aging and Chronic Illnesses Like Diabetes

Is it any coincidence that AJN recently heard from editorial board member Michael Desjardins and contributing editor Jane Seley about ways physicians and the mainstream media remain blind to the cutting-edge work being done by nurses in developing new models of care for the elderly and the chronically ill, including those with diabetes? This is a narrative that has to change if our health care system is going to face the challenges coming its way. […]

2016-11-21T13:37:50-05:00March 20th, 2009|career, nursing perspective|1 Comment
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