Modeling of Clinical Nursing Care
Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse
Volume 35 Issue 1 April 2010
ii + 126 pages ISBN 978-1-921348-18-1
Advances in Contemporary Modeling of Clinicial Nursing Care
Guest edited by:
Professor Mary Chiarella, Members of the Modelling of Care Reference Group, University of Technology, Sydney
and
Professor Judith Lathlean, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Southhampton, UK
This special issue of Contemporary Nurse is devoted to modelling new and innovative nursing and midwifery approaches to patient and family care.
In the current climate of staff shortage, scarce resources and increasing demand for service nurses are continually challenged to review and revise practice to ensure best practice in the specific local context. The NSW Models of Care Project identified numerous examples of how nurses have modelled creative adaptive innovation that has impacted significantly on patients and staff. Many of these initiatives remain unacknowledged and unavailable for adoption beyond their geographical and clinical contexts.
The aim of this edition is
q to share and celebrate this work, also inviting contributions from a wider nursing community both internationally and from other regions in Australia.
q to provide a forum to bring together various perspectives about the issues, challenges and directions that impact on nurses and their ability to lead practice change from a ward or unit based, patient oriented perspective.
q encourage and support novice writers.
Modelling of care work is characterised by a problem solving approach to practice change or service re-design in a localised context. This work can be achieved via research, practice development, education and quality projects. We welcome papers drawing on all of these approaches.
We particularly invite contributions from nurses and midwives in all clinical specialities and across all health care contexts from nurse managers, educators and academics in partnership with clinicians. Papers with an interdisciplinary focus and/ or international authorship are welcome.
First time authors who require support are invited to submit an Abstract of 500 words with a request for support by the 30th of October 2008. Requests for support should be submitted to slang@doh.health.nsw.gov.au
Author Guidelines are available at: http://www.contemporarynurse.com/page/42/author-guidelines
The deadline for manuscript submissions to editorial@e-contentmanagement.com (copy to Vicki.Parker@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au) is 30 April 2009.
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