The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) has awarded its prestigious AJN Book of the Year award to three nursing textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The LWW publications were honoured in the categories of information technology and informatics, critical care emergency nursing, and community public health.
AJN claims to be the nation's oldest and largest circulating nursing journal and one of the most highly respected in its field. For more than 40 years, AJN's Book of the Year Award competition draws annually hundreds of submissions by authors from various fields in the nursing profession. A distinguished panel of judges select those considered the most valuable texts in a range of categories each year.
Informatics and Nursing: Opportunities and Challenges, by Jeanne Sewell and Linda Q. Thede, was named Information Technology and Informatics Book of the Year. This comprehensive text reviews the concepts and applications of nursing informatics, from computer basics to data usage skills and techniques.
Simulation Simplified: Student Lab Manual for Critical Care Nursing by Sandra Goldsworthy and Leslie Graham, bagged the second place in the Critical Care–Emergency Nursing Book of the Year category. The Student Lab Manual supports students in the completion of electronic patient case simulations, and works in concert with electronic resources and the instructor manual. It provides step by step guidance for complex, open-ended simulations, and takes the mystery, guess work and the difficulty out of completing patient simulations.
Introduction to Community-Based Nursing by Roberta Hunt also bagged the second place in the Community–Public Health Book of the Year category. This text presents foundational concepts pivotal to delivering nursing care in the community setting, with specific attention to the NLN competencies for community-based nursing care. The author examines the variety of settings and situations in which the community-based nurse provides care, highlighting cultural diversities in the patient populations, and emphasising interactions between the individual and the family.
