New York, NY (January 24, 2011) – The American Journal of Nursingrecognized the best nursing and healthcare publications of 2010 with an announcement of its Book of the Year Award recipients. Winners in 15 separate categories appear in the current issue of the journal. AJN, the leading voice of nursing since 1900, is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
“AJN’s Book of the Year awards are sought-after by authors and publishers,” said Shawn Kennedy, MA, RN, AJN’s editor-in-chief. “As part of our mission to disseminate credible, cutting-edge information, the awards give us the opportunity to acknowledge high quality publications.”
Book of the Year Awards
Since 1969, AJN has been announcing its annual list of the best in nursing publishing. The Book of the Year program is a prestigious competition that garners the attention of its 105,000 subscribers and half a million others who read the journal online. The annual list of most valuable texts is selected by AJN’s panel of judges. Eligible books must be published between August of the prior year and August of the award year. This year’s first place award winners are:
- Public Interest and Creative Works – Nursing: The Finest Art 3rd edition by M. Patricia Donahue
- Community-Public – Health Wade Handbook of African American Health edited by Robert L. Hampton, Thomas P. Gullotta, and Raymond L. Crowel
- Consumer Health – My Pregnancy Pocket Guide by Aubrey
- Medical-Surgical Nursing – Acute Stroke Nursing edited by Jane Williams, Lin Perry, and Caroline Watkins
- Nursing Education – Educating Nurses: A Call for Radical Transformation by Patricia Benner, Molly Sutphen, Victoria Leonard, and Lisa Day
- Nursing Research – Statistics and Data Analysis for Nursing Research 2nd edition by Denise F. Polit
- Professional Development – Current Issues in Nursing 8th edition edited by Perle Slavik Cowen and Sue Moorhead
- Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing – Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: Science and Practice by David A. Clark and Aaron T. Beck
- Critical-Emergency Nursing – ASTNA Patient Transport: Principles and Practice 4th edition edited by Reneé Semonin Holleran
- Gerontologic Nursing – Quick Reference to Adult and Older Adult Forensics: A Guide for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals by Kathleen M. Brown and Mary E. Muscari
- Health Policy and History – American Nursing: A History of Knowledge, Authority, and the Meaning of Work by Patricia D’Antonio
- Leadership and Management – Innovation Leadership: Creating the Landscape of Health Care edited by Tim Porter-O’Grady and Kathy Malloch
- Maternal and Child Health – Maternal and Child Nursing Care 3rd edition by Marcia L. London, Patricia A. Wieland Ladewig, Jane W. Ball, Ruth C. Bindler, and Kay J. Cowen
- Information Technology – Integrating Technology in Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era by Kathleen Garver Mastrian, Dee McGonigle, Wendy L. Mahan, and Brett Bixler
- Hospice and Palliative Care – Palliative Care for Advanced Alzheimer’s and Dementia: Guidelines and Standards for Evidence-Based Care edited by Gary A. Martin and Marwan N. Sabbagh
View all winners online at links.lww.com/AJN/A18.
About the American Journal of Nursing
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the “leading voice of nursing since 1900,” and the most established nursing journal in the world (www.AJNonline.com). It has received numerous awards for editorial excellence and dissemination of information. It is the only nursing journal named among the 100 Most Influential Journals of the Century by the Biomedical Sciences Division of the Special Libraries Association. It is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (www.LWW.com).
About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
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