Selected Journals
Scholarly Nursing Education Journals
General Nursing Professional Journals
Research Paper Tips
While this is a personal essay of sorts, use sources to inform your writing. For example, if you think stress might be a challenge for you in nursing school, research stress coping strategies for nursing students.
Don't reinvent the wheel. There is research available about how to be successful in nursing school. Research and apply these ideas in your own experience.
Look at the lives of nurses. Memoirs and biographies of successful nurses can be helpful in developing your own career path. Find sources that help you get a sense for others' careers. A few sources are suggested on this guide below.
Topic Ideas: Characteristics, Skills & Practices
- Stress Tolerance
- Stress Coping Strategies for nursing students
- Male Nursing Students
- Study Habits
- Time Management Skills
- Organization Skills
- Being Goal-Oriented
- Being Resilient
- Stamina
- Leadership
- Ability to Remain Focused
- Ability to be Flexible
- Simulation as a Learning Strategy
- Nursing Students with Disabilities
- Academic Dishonesty (i.e. plagiarism) among Nursing Students
- Civility in Nursing Education
- Cultural Competence among Nursing Students
- Strong Communication Skills
- Critical Thinker
- Motivating Factors Contributing to Nursing as a Career Choice
- Reflection in Nursing Professional Development
- Attention to Detail(s)
- Emotional Intelligence & Stability among Nursing Students
- Sense of Humor
- Empathy & Caring Nature
- Understanding Nursing Code of Ethics
- Integrity
- Willingness to Learn
Selected Books: Nursing School Success
Getting the Most from Nursing School by Call Number: RT 71 .A85 2009Presents a road map to guide talented men and women along their journey from considering nursing as a profession to their first position as a registered nurse
How to Survive and Maybe Even Love Nursing School by Call Number: RT 73 .D79 2008This guide for nursing students by nursing students is full of practical information to help them cope with, and get the most out of, nursing school. It features a new section, "staff nurses speak," with quotes from staff nurses currently advising nursing students. It covers the use of podcasts, voice recorders, and CD-burning technology for recording and preserving lectures. It offers new, illustrative quotes from current nursing students and faculty members. Advice is given on respecting patient autonomy and dealing with end of life issues. A new section on the nurse and media advocacy is included.
How to Survive Clinical by Call Number: RT 71 .M33 2008Content: Welcome to your first clinical rotation -- How to remain organized in a sea of information -- Coordinating the theory class with your clinical rotation -- Working with patients -- Working with the health-care team -- Getting and giving report -- Common mistakes and how to avoid them -- How to deal with your stress -- How your professors can guide the way -- Taking care of yourself : physically, mentally, and professionally.
Nursing School Success by Call Number: RT 71 .W55 2007"Nursing School Success presents an interactive approach to promoting success in nursing schools by providing step-by-step instruction and examples for implementing strategies. captivating student interests, and advancing student participation in the learning process. It also includes exercises that encourage active learning - chapter objectives, self-correcting tools to assess one's learning style, study habits, and time management skills."
Understanding Ethics for Nursing Students by Call Number: RT85 .E455 2017ISBN: 9781473997882Publication Date: 2017-09-29From the start of the nursing program, it is essential that nursing students understand the significance of ethics and how it will impact decisions made on a daily basis. Understanding Ethics for Nursing Students explains ethical ideas, theories, and concepts in simple to understand terms and focuses on day-to-day nursing situations that apply principles to practice. The book challenges the reader to consider their own values and where ethics fits into who they are and how they behave.
Creating and Sustaining Civility in Nursing Education by Call Number: RT85 .C53 2013ISBN: 9781937554545Publication Date: 2013-01-01Contents: Reflections on incivility and why civility matters -- The costs and consequences of incivility: rationale for change -- The inextricable link between stress and incivility -- The "dance of incivility and civility" in nursing education -- Raising awareness, naming the problem, and creating a vision for civility -- Principled leadership and the power of positive role-modeling and mentoring -- The healing power of stress management and self-care -- Fostering effective and meaningful communication -- the first day of class: co-creating a positive learning environment -- Scholarly teaching, engaged learning, and finding our joy -- Pathway for fostering organizational civility: institutionalizing change -- Seeking and keeping civility in nursing education.
Toxic nursing : managing bullying, bad attitudes, and total turmoil by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2021Nursing has a not-so-secret problem. The profession is prone to--some would say thrives on--workplace conflict, incivility, bullying, and meanness. And while nurses observe and experience this conflict daily, too few have been trained in its resolution. Toxic Nursing aims to change that with strategies, tools, and techniques to help nurse leaders, managers, and administrators defuse conflict, turn around toxic situations, and create positive, healthy work environments.
Selected Books: Nursing Careers
Resumes for Nursing Careers by Call Number: RT 86.7 .R45 2007This book: Includes nearly 100 sample resumes and 20 cover letters for each field-more than any competing series; A workbook format to organize information before writing a resume; Perfect for college grads and people changing careers or reentering the job market; A variety of eye-catching resume formats.
Landing Your Perfect Nursing Job by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781937554736Publication Date: 2012-11-01This book will help nurses to strategically get through the job search process, so they can come out on top. This book addresses nurses: whether brand-new, mid-career, or approaching retirement. This is a reference guide to develop the employment prospects of any nurse who is struggling to find his or her professional direction. Landing Your Perfect Nursing Job is full of tips, tricks, worksheets, checklists, sample cover letters and resumes, scripts for communication by email, messaging solutions, over the phone, or in person, supplemented with real success stories from the field as well as direct quotes from nurse recruiters in order to best prepare nurses to find the job of their dreams.
Nurses with Disabilities by Call Number: RT 34 .N43 2013ISBN: 9780826110121Publication Date: 2012-01-01This is the first research-based book to confront workplace issues facing nurses who have disabilities. It not only examines in-depth their experiences, roadblocks to successful employment, and misperceptions surrounding these nurses, but also provides viable solutions for creating positive attitudes towards them and a welcoming work environment that fosters hiring and retention. From the perspectives and actual voices of nurses with disabilities, nurse leaders, nurse administrators, and patients, the book identifies nurses with disabilities (including sensory, musculoskeletal, emotional, and mental health issues), discusses why they choose to leave nursing or hide their disabilities, and analyzes how their disabilities may influence career choices. Written by the foremost researcher on nurses with disabilities, the book addresses patient safety, environmental factors, and retention strategies. It discusses why many nurses feel the need to conceal their disability even though it does not affect their ability to carry out their duties.
A Man's Guide to a Nursing Career by Call Number: RT 83 .O59 2013"This is a nuts and bolts guide to a career in nursing--from the earliest consideration of a nursing career through education and clinical practice--designed specifically for men. Written by the author of Men in Nursing: History, Challenges and Opportunities, it was created at the request of numerous colleagues for a book that addressed the practical needs and concerns of men throughout their nursing career journey. The text presents the numerous career paths available in nursing along with a consideration of their financial benefits, job security, personal fulfillment, and the need for nurses who are adept at information management and high tech-skills. The history of nursing is discussed through biographies of nine remarkable male nurses, offering much needed historical role models. The guide discusses strategies for dealing with a rigorous nursing curriculum compounded by the challenges of anti-male sentiment that is sometimes present.
The Nursing Career Planning Guide by Call Number: RT 82 .T89 2007Presents working nurses with tips for beginning a nursing career, moving out of bedside clinical rolses and acquiring general supervision and career development skills. Introduces strategies for coping with workplace transitions such as job reentry, layoff, termination, resignation and compassion fatigue.
Change Your Career: Nursing as Your New Profession by Call Number: RT 82 .A75 2006Contents: Chapter 1. Should you change your career? -- Chapter 2. Is nursing the right career for you? -- Chapter 3. Sorting out fact from fiction -- Chapter 4. Nursing specializations inside the hospital -- Chapter 5. Nursing specializations outside the hospital -- Chapter 6. Identifying your transferable skills and talents -- Chapter 7. Nursing degrees, exams, and more -- Chapter 8. Online nursing education -- Chapter 9. Paying for your education -- Chapter 10. How to manage going back to school -- Chapter 11. Managing your life outside of nursing school -- Chapter 12. Succeeding in school and at home: peer advice -- Chapter 13. Nursing concepts you need to know for success -- Chapter 14. Job-hunting resources -- Chapter 15. Making your résumé, cover letter, and application work for you -- Chapter 16. Succeeding in your job interview.
Learning disability nursing : developing professional practice by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781914171369Publication Date: 2022Explores all aspects of professional development in learning disability nursing from the foundations to advanced practice. Key themes running through the book include the importance of a human rights and values-based approach, the development of person-centred approaches to care and support, and the need to work in partnership with key stakeholders, including people with learning disabilities and their families. It encourages readers to make links between theory and practice and to develop their skills in critical thinking through case studies and reflective activities.
Selected Books: Inspiring Nurses
Confessions of a trauma junkie : my life as a nurse paramedic by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1615993436Publication Date: 2017
Opening My Heart: A Journey from Nurse to Patient and Back Again by Call Number: RD 598 .S53 2012
Beautiful Unbroken: One Nurse's Life by Call Number: RT 37 .N4 N34 2011
Cooked: An Inner City Nursing Memoir by Call Number: RT 37 .K374 A3 2005
Critical Care: A New Nurse Faces Death, Life, and Everything in Between by Call Number: RT 120 .I5 B76 2010
Luther Christman A Maverick Nurse A Nur by Call Number: RT 37 .C44 P46 2005ISBN: 9781412201599Publication Date: 2006-09-12
The Nightingale Sisters: The Making of a Nurse in 1800s America by Call Number: RT 4 .F72 2006
Notes on Nightingale: The Influence and Legacy of a Nursing Icon by Call Number: RT 37 .N5 N68 2010Also available as e-book.
A bold profession : African nurses in rural apartheid South Africa by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780299331238Publication Date: 2021
Reaching Past the Wire: A Nurse at Abu Ghraib by Call Number: DS 79.76 .G474 2007
Selected Books: Nursing History
A History of American Nursing by Call Number: RT 4 .J83 2010
Men in Nursing: History, Challenges, and Opportunities by Call Number: RT 41 .M46 2007
Nursing, the Finest Art by Call Number: folio RT 31 .D66 2011 (1st floor)
