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A nurse's guide to presenting and publishing : dare to share / Kathleen T. Heinrich.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Heinrich, Kathleen T.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Nursing--Authorship.
Nursing.
Nursing literature--Marketing.
Nursing literature.
Public speaking.
Creative ability.
Creativity.
Nurse's Role.
Nurses--psychology.
Publishing.
Writing.
Medical Subjects:
Creativity.
Nurse's Role.
Nurses--psychology.
Publishing.
Writing.
Physical Description:
xxx, 438 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Place of Publication:
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2008]
Summary:
Written for every nurse, A Nurse's Guide to Presenting and Publishing is a textbook for baccalaureate, graduate, and doctoral students, a companion text for professional development, and a handbook for small groups in practice settings. The small steps shared in this book have helped hundreds of students, staff nurses, advanced practice nurses, and nurse managers to accept the challenge and dare to share their experience with others. Now you can learn to do the same!
Meant as a portable mentor, this guidebook introduces you to all four steps: Shift in perspective - see yourself as creative, Self-reflect - explore your "inner landscape", Strategies and skills - practice the techniques and tools, Support circles - develop mindful relationships with colleague-friends, For the first time ever, these evidence-based steps are contained in one book!
Contents:
Section 1 Small Steps to Open to Your Creativity
Chapter 1 Introduction: What Do Nurses Who Dare to Share Have? 3
Chapter 2 I Am a Nurse and I Am Creative 5
Chapter 3 What's Your Something Special? 8
Chapter 4 How to Recognize Your Inner Critic 12
Chapter 5 How to Take a Creative Time-Out 18
Chapter 6 How Do Artist's Dates Prime Your Creativity Pump? 21
Chapter 7 How to Write Yourself into a Reflective Practice 26
Chapter 8 Why a Support Circle? 28
Chapter 9 Conclusion: Commit to a Creative Next Step 31
Section 2 Small Steps to Present What You Do
Chapter 10 Introduction: How Are Presentations Defined? 37
Chapter 11 I Bring Beginner's Mind to My Life as a Nurse 40
Chapter 12 What's Your Preference as a Learner? 43
Chapter 13 What's Your Something Special as a Presenter? 47
Chapter 14 What's Your Presenting Style? 51
Chapter 15 What's Your Greatest Challenge as a Presenter? 53
Chapter 16 How to Overcome the Shyness Challenge 56
Chapter 17 How to Get Physical with Your Still-Point Strategy 59
Chapter 18 How to Divide Your Presentation Project into Steps 62
Chapter 19 How to Find the Ideas in Your Challenges 64
Chapter 20 What's Your Idea's Glitter Score? 68
Chapter 21 What's a Presentation Worksheet? 71
Chapter 22 How to Whittle Your Idea to Presentation-Size Focus 73
Chapter 23 What's Your Purpose? 77
Chapter 24 Who's Your Audience? 81
Chapter 25 How to Choreograph Your Venue 84
Chapter 26 What Response Are You Seeking from Your Audience? 89
Chapter 27 How to Take the Dare Out of Your Literature Search 93
Chapter 28 How to Snag a Sweet-Spot Slant 100
Chapter 29 How to Complete Your Presentation Worksheet 104
Chapter 30 How to Write Your One-Sentence Description 107
Chapter 31 How to Translate Worksheets into Proposals 110
Chapter 32 How to Pick a Peer Mentor 115
Chapter 33 How to Decide Whether to Go Solo or Co-Present 118
Chapter 34 How to Negotiate Mindful Presenting Relationships 121
Chapter 35 How to Design Presentations That Show and Tell 124
Chapter 36 How to Kolb Longer Presentations 130
Chapter 37 How to Ensure That Presentations Are Internally Consistent 134
Chapter 38 How to Assess Audience Response 138
Chapter 39 How to Perk Up Presentation Packets 143
Chapter 40 How to Power Up Your Use of PowerPoint 154
Chapter 41 How to Prepare Who Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors 166
Chapter 42 How to Prepare What Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors 170
Chapter 43 How to Prepare How Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors 174
Chapter 44 How to Get the Most from Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors 179
Chapter 45 How to Prepare for Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors 182
Chapter 46 How to Make the Most of Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors 188
Chapter 47 Why a Storytelling Chapter? 192
Chapter 48 How to Make Sure Your Poster Is Worth a Thousand Words 194
Chapter 49 Conclusion: Commit to Presenting What You Do 207
Section 3 Small Steps to Write About What You Do
Chapter 50 Introduction: Why Do Nurse Authors Get Addicted to Writing? 213
Chapter 51 I Work Smart 217
Chapter 52 What Makes Writing Easier for You? 220
Chapter 53 What Makes Writing Difficult for You? 224
Chapter 54 What Are the Benefits of Writing About What You Do? 228
Chapter 55 How to Get to Know Your Sweetheart 231
Chapter 56 How Would You Describe Your Writing Style? 235
Chapter 57 How to Write Yourself into Still Point 240
Chapter 58 How to See if Your Idea Has Enough Eye-Glitter for a Publication 243
Chapter 59 How Choosing Your Readership Decides Your Vehicle 247
Chapter 60 How to Select Potential Professional Vehicles 252
Chapter 61 How to Elicit Your Desired Reader Response 258
Chapter 62 How Presentation Worksheets Become Publication Worksheets 261
Chapter 63 How to Write Queries That Sell Editors on Your Idea 265
Chapter 64 What You Need to Know Before Querying Editors 272
Chapter 65 How to Rate an Editor's Response to Your Query 276
Chapter 66 What You Need to Proceed With Your Writing Project 280
Chapter 67 What to Consider as Your Craft Your Timeline 286
Chapter 68 How to Tell if You're a Free-Writer, a Mind-Mapper, or an Outliner 291
Chapter 69 How to Leap from Outlines to Manuscripts 297
Chapter 70 How to Think Like an Editor When Preparing Your Manuscript 301
Chapter 71 How to Choose Peer Editors and Request Peer Editing 306
Chapter 72 How to Request, Respond to, and Reward Peer Editing 311
Chapter 73 What to Do When Receiving or Giving Peer Editing Feedback 318
Chapter 74 How to Peer Edit 321
Chapter 75 How to Celebrate Revisions and Thrive on Rejections 325
Chapter 76 How to Work Smart by Turning Co-Presenters into Co-Authors 328
Chapter 77 How a Nurse-Author's Story May Change Your Life 332
Chapter 78 How My Students Helped Me to Actualize a Childhood Dream 334
Chapter 79 Conclusion: Commit to Writing About What You Do 342
Section 4 Small Steps to Cultivate Support Circles
Chapter 80 Introduction: Who Are These Nurses Called Colleague-Friends? 347
Chapter 81 I Reach Out and Receive with Gratitude 352
Chapter 82 What Can You Learn from Drawing Your Support Circle? 355
Chapter 83 How to Add Intentions to Your Still-Point Strategies 360
Chapter 84 How to Put the Pizzazz in Peer-Mentoring Partnerships 363
Chapter 85 How to Check if Creative Collaborations Pass the Zest Test 369
Chapter 86 How to Trade an Editor's Red Pen for a Peer Editor's Compassion 372
Chapter 87 What's a Resonator? 378
Chapter 88 What Are Three Words That Turn Competitions into Collaborations? 381
Chapter 89 How Expressing Wishes and Concerns Keeps Collaborations Zestful 394
Chapter 90 Conclusion: Commit to Cultivating Support Circles 397
Section 5 Small Steps: Send Off
Chapter 91 Introduction: Why Dream About Nurses Taking the Dare to Share? 403
Chapter 92 How to Activate Your Compassion by Daring to Share 406
Chapter 93 How to Get a Glow from the Flow of Good Work 416.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780763746797
0763746797
OCLC:
152794256

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