The American Journal of Nursing (AJN), published by healthcare publisher Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, US, recognised the best nursing and healthcare publications of 2008 with an announcement of its Book of the Year Award recipients. Winners in 15 separate categories appear in the journal's January issue.
Since 1969, the AJN has been announcing its annual list of the best in nursing publishing. The AJN Book of the Year program is a prestigious competition that garners the attention of its 285,000 subscribers and others who read the journal. The most valuable texts of each year are chosen by AJN's panel of judges. Only books published between August of the prior year and August of the award year are eligible. Many of the winning publications address a variety of controversial consumer health topics and nursing industry issues that span medical-surgical nursing, psychiatric-mental health nursing, maternal and child health, and other areas. The complete list of winners can be accessed online at http://links.lww.com/A639.
Founded in 1900, the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) claims to be one of the oldest and largest circulating nursing journals. The journal seeks to promote excellence in nursing and health care through the dissemination of evidence-based, peer-reviewed clinical information and original research, discussion of relevant and controversial professional issues, adherence to the standards of journalistic integrity and excellence, and promotion of nursing perspectives to the health care community and the public.
