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Each issue of our magazines includes a peer-reviewed continuing education module that allows nurses to earn one contact hour. We are looking for modules that are timely, relevant, and compelling for practicing nurses. Prospective authors should be able to demonstrate their expertise in the subject matter through experience, education, or both. To understand the tone, style, and format of our CE modules, visit our Web site, www.nurse.com (click on Education/CE and then Self-Study Modules), and review a few of them.
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Tips for Writing a Clinical Vignette
Clinical Vignette - Heart Failure
Types of Evidence
Level A
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Level C
Guidelines for Listing References
1. Use AMA style. (See the AMA Manual of Style, 10th edition.) 2. List footnoted citations under a “Reference” heading. Number citations consecutively in the text. Once a citation has a number, it keeps it throughout the narrative. 3. List general references not specifically cited in the text under a “Bibliography” heading. 4. Abbreviate journal names according to AMA style.
Examples
Books (entire book) Sherlock S, Dooley, J. Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System. 9th ed. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers Inc; 2001.
Books (chapter in edited book) Schenk EA. Management of persons with neurological problems. In: Phipps WJ, Manahon Donovan F, Sands JK, Marek JF, Neighbors M, eds. Medical-Surgical Nursing: Health and Illness Perspectives. 7th ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby; 2002:1787-1865.
CDs, DVDs, audiotapes, videotapes: Wound Healing. [videotape]. Irvine, CA: Concept Media; 2006.
Online material In citing data from a Web site, include the following elements, if available, in the order shown: Author(s), if given (often, no authors are given). Title of the specific item cited (if none is given, use the name of the organization responsible for the site). Name of the Web site. URL [provide URL and verify that the link still works as clase as possible to publication]. Published [date]. Updated [date]. Accessed [date].
Examples:
Online journals
Burt RK, Loh Y, Pearce W, et al. Clinical applications of blood-derived and marrowderived stem cells for nonmalignant diseases. JAMA. 2008;299(8):925-936. http:// www.jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/299/8/925. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Websites
Interim guidance about avian influenza A (H5N1) for US citizens living abroad. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site. http://www.cdc.gov/travel/other/avian_flu_ig_americans_abroad_032405.htm. Updated November 18, 2005. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Dissertation or master’s thesis
Caruso E. An Examination of Organizational Mentoring: The Case of Motorola [dissertation]. London, England: University of London; 1990.
Newspapers
Steinmetz G. Kafka is a symbol of Prague today; also, he’s a T-shirt. Wall Street Journal. October 10, 1996;A2, A6.
Poster
Clawson LL. Treatment and research perspectives in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Poster presented at: American Association of Neuroscience Nurses Annual Meeting, 1997, Houston, TX
Package insert
Cials [package insert]. Indianapolis, IN: Eli Lilly & Co; 2003.
Tips for Writing Test Questions
Bibliography
Evidence-based toolkit. American Academy of Family Physicians Web site. http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/afp/ebmtoolkit.html. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Is all evidence created equal? University of Illinois Web site. http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/lhsp/resources/levels.shtml. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Levels of evidence (March 2009). Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine Web site. http://www.cebm.net/index.aspx?o=1025. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Newhouse RP, Dearholt SL, Poe SS, Pugh LC, White KM. Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence Based Practice Model and Guidelines. Indianapolis, IN: Sigma Theta Tau International; 2007.
SORT: The strength-of-recommendation taxonomy. American Academy of Family Physicians Web site. http://www.aafp.org/online/en/home/publications/journals/afp/afpsort.html. Accessed July 31, 2009.
Understanding research study designs. University of Minnesota Biomedical Library Web site. http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/inst/research/pdf. Accessed July 31, 2009.
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