Advances in Nursing Science (ANS) is launching an Editor Immersion Program to provide a year-long Editorial role mentoring experience. Applications for the 2020-21 program are due April 1, 2020.  See details about the program, and application and selection process here.

The activities of the program will be:

• Attendance at the INANE conference August 2-5, 2020 in Nashville, TN, including the preconference “Extreme Education for Editors (E3)” session, and the Lippincott publishers meeting (see https://inane2020.com/). Attendance at the 2021 INANE conference in Dublin, Ireland will be encouraged, but not required.
• Attendance at the ANS Advisory Board Meetings on October 30, 2020, and October 8, 2021 (both in Washington, DC). Please note: there may be funds available to assist with travel involved in attending these and the INANE meetings, but your application should not be contingent on the availability of funding.
• Orientation to the purposes, scope, editorial policies and publisher expectations related to ANS.
• Orientation to the responsibilities of the Editor in Editorial Manager, and fulfilling these responsibilities for submissions assigned by the Editor.
• Participate in the process of selecting the journal content for the issues due to the publisher during the term of service.
• Prepare at least one editorial during the term of service.
• At least bi-weekly Zoom meetings with the Editor.

See attached PDF announcement for further details.

On December 18, 2018, Margaret Ann Newman, prolific nurse author, teacher and theorist, passed over to the great beyond. Her writings expanded the nursology horizon over the past 40 years with her thought-provoking work. She advanced the knowledge of the discipline of nursing, and has been a key figure in the development of nursing theory.

Margaret was born on born on October 10, 1933 in Memphis. She received a BA degree from Baylor University. After college she returned to Memphis to care for her mother, who had Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gerig’s disease). Having learned from her mother that one can be healthy even in the face of disease, Margaret felt a call to nursing and entered nursing school at the University of Tennessee College of Nursing. After receiving her baccalaureate nursing degree, she entered graduate nursing studies at the University of California, San Francisco and received her master’s degree in 1964.

Margaret returned to Memphis and served as UT Assistant Professor of Nursing and the UT Clinical Research Center Director of Nursing. Margaret spent the next 10 years at New York University—first in doctoral studies, receiving her PhD in 1971, and then as faculty. Dr. Newman assumed the position of Professor in charge of Graduate Studies in Nursing at Penn State in 1977, at which time she also organized an international nursing theory think tank. She introduced her theory of health as expanding consciousness in 1978 and published the earliest primer on developing nursing theory: Theory Development in Nursing (1979). In 1984, she assumed a position as nurse theorist and professor at the University of Minnesota, where she furthered the development and testing of her theory, working closely with doctoral students. In the 1980s, she served as a civilian consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General for Nursing Research. Dr. Newman retired from teaching in 1999, yet remained active for another 17 years advancing nursing theory, education, research, and practice through her presentations and publications, including her 7th book, Transforming Presence: the Difference that Nursing Makes (2008). Dr. Newman’s theory of health has been widely embraced around the world and her life will be commemorated in many countries.

For more information, visit these important resources

Nursology.net resources:

A Tribute to Margaret Ann Newman by Margaret Pharris
Health as Expanding Consciousness (HEC) Theory Page
Go to 2016 Newman Scholars Dialogue Page

 Memphis Funeral Home obituary

In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to the fund for the Margaret Newman Endowed Chair

Last summer, we unveiled the “beta” version of a new nursing journals directory, the link to which has been posted on all of the Directory pages for you to preview. We have received very positive feedback about the new Directory, and have made a few improvements – so now it is ready to officially launch!

As of midnight Eastern Standard Time on December 31st, 2018, the current pages to the listing of Journals will no longer be available. The link to the new Nursing Journals Directory will instead be available on both this INANE website and the Nurse Author and Editor site, where the Directory originated!

To use the new Directory, click on the link to the Nursing Journals Directory wherever you find it. From there, you can browse the entire Directory, with the journals listed alphabetically. The new directory is fully “searchable” – enter your search term in the search field in the uper right corner just under the purple title bar!

When you find a journal you are interested in, click on the journal “card” to see a brief description, the name of the current editor, the editor’s contact email, and a link to the journal website!

The vetting process for being included in the Nursing Journals Directory remains the same, assuring users that every title listed follows the standards of excellence for scientific and scholarly publication. We also require that journals listed in the Directory have a significant focus on articles authored by nurses, and focused on the discipline of nursing.

As always, we welcome your feedback and hope you find this new Directory format useful!

For a while now, a number of INANE members have tossed around the idea of a “People-to-People” program, similar to the model that we experienced in our trips to Cuba.  This type of program requires a leader, a small group of interested INANE members, and connections with individuals or groups in another country who are eager to spend a few days to a week exchanging ideas about nursing journal publishing in our two countries.  One reason we keep advancing this idea is that INANE was founded, in part, on the idea of being “international” in scope, which is why we have a strong record of holding conferences in other countries.  However, even when we do have a conference in another country, we have fallen short of meaningful and lasting exchanges that would strengthen nursing publishing worldwide.  Yes, we have a good time, and sometimes people from outside of north America find our conferences more accessible when held away from North America (which is a good thing) but we still conduct our business in English, with no translation accommodations, and people outside of the North American and predominantly English speaking, Eurocentric cultures still have little involvement, nor do we have any significant involvement with them.

A people-to-people program could begin to address these issues,   All we need is for an INANE member or small group of people to volunteer to start such a program!  Leslie Nicoll and I have posted a proposal on our website –here, and you can download the proposal PDF here. 

We currently have a request from a professor at Manipal College of Nursing, MAHE, Manipal, India, who is very interested in discussing a possibility of such a program.  It would be terrific if this could get started!  If you are interested and willing to explore this, or any other possible “people-to-people” program, let either me or Leslie know!  We have heaps of information to help you get started!  And, the really good news is that this is INANE – so there are no rules or policies that we impose on what you might do – the sky is the limit (at least as far as INANE is concerned!).

We look forward to moving this conversation forward. Use the contact form to get in touch. Thank you!

PREVIEW THE NEW NURSING JOURNALS DIRECTORY!

Followers of this blog already know about the valuable “Directory of Nursing Journals” that is a joint project between Nurse Author & Editor and INANE!  this valuable service to members of our discipline provides vital information about vetteed, credible journals in nursing. – a service that has grown in value during recent years when the number of nursing journals has exploded, and includes an unbelievable number of journals that lack credibility.,  Recently we have developed a new format for the Directory and are eager to have your feedback!!  Instead of being broken into several pages, the new Directory comes from a database that includes all of the journals that quality for listing.  The database is searchable – if you enter any search term all journals that have that term in their title or description will show up!   

We welcome you to preview this Directory format, and let us know what you think!

A question came up on the INANE Email list about the number of nursing journals there are in current publication. We actually have information on this in the INANE database of journals.

Marilyn Oermann and colleagues did a study on predatory journals, and identified 140 predatory journals in nursing; of those 103 had at least one article published.

In the Directory of Nursing Journals, there are currently 251 journals listed. These have been vetted for inclusion so I would characterize these as quality nursing publications. In the database that we maintain for the directory, there are 307 journals included. The reasons that 56 journals are not listed  in the directory include;

We are delighted to announce that Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN is the current recipient of the Margaret Comerford Freda Award for Editorial Leadership in Nursing Publication!  Dr. Oermann is currently the Thelma M. Ingles Professor of Nursing and Director of Evaluation and Educational Research at Duke University.  Dr. Oermann has received numerous competitive research and training grants, has publications too numerous to count, and has served in numerous editorial capacities. She is a tireless mentor of students, nurses, and editors, helping to launch many others in leadership, academic, research and editing careers. She interacts with students and practitioners of nursing at all levels with respect, encouragement, and confidence in their abilities. Dr. Oermann’s editorial leadership is evident in her many editorial roles and accomplishments:

• Current editor-in-chief of Nurse Educator and Journal of Nursing Care Quality
• Past editor of Nurse, Author, Editor, Outcomes Management, Annual Review of Nursing Education
• Interim editor of The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing
• Serves or served on advisory boards of: Nurse Education Today, From Surviving to Thriving, Nursing Forum, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, Professional Case Management, ADVANCE for Nurses newsmagazine, Nurse Educator, Review of Research in Nursing Education,
• Peer-reviewer for numerous professional nursing journals
• Lead Investigator and author on investigations related to predatory publishing in nursing.

Dr. Oermann exemplifies the highest standards of editorial leadership in nursing – advancing quality in nursing literature, nurturing students and practicing nurses as authors, and encouraging nurses who are entering editorial roles.  We are delighted to honor Dr. Oermann as the 2017-2018 recipient of the Margaret Comerford Freda Award for Editorial Leadership in Nursing Publication.  

It is times to visit the brand new INANE 2017 website, where you will find complete information on registration, hotel reservations, abstract submission, and more!  The conference will be in Denver, Colorado at the historic Brown Palace Hotel from August 3-5.  Once again this conference promises to be another informative, even necessary event – along with ample opportunities for networking, exploring the local area, and more!