- Opportunity to Publish: Special Edition of Nursing Administration Quarterly dedicated to Environmental Health

Dear Nursing Colleagues and Friends,

Last year, we (Anna Gilmore-Hall from Health Care Without Harm and Barbara Sattler from University of Maryland) agreed to be editors of a specially dedicated environmental health  issue for an upcoming Nursing Administration Quarterly journal. Nursing Administration Quarterly (NAQ). This is a peer-reviewed journal that provides nursing managers and administrators with practical, up-to-date information on the effective management of nursing services in a range of health care settings. Published 4 times per year, each issue focuses on a selected topic providing an in depth look at the many aspects of nursing administration. So now, all of a sudden it is here!

We are responsible for soliciting manuscripts for the journal, as well as reviewing unsolicited manuscripts. We will have about 175 pages that we are responsible for. Manuscripts will be due on  April 1, 2010. There are also other opportunities – including providing suggestions to the journal for their regular column topics (recent news, regulation and legislation, new book reviews, informatics etc. etc.).

We have the opportunity to include some articles that are general to the topic of environmental health as well as those that are directly related to the role of administrator/managers.   If you would like to discuss an idea that you might have for an article, feel free to contact us by phone or email.

We hope that many of you will consider submitting an article.   As a peer-reviewed journal the articles will be archivable and therefore retrievable when someone  does a literature search so we imagine that these articles will often be read by nurses who are looking for information about environmental health and nursing.

Here are examples of some of the topics we thought would be of interest:   The regenerative hospital, climate change and impact on health (US and global perspectives); green teams; changing culture within health care systems; economics of sustainability within facilities and within communities; safer chemicals policy; impact of sustainable food on patients and communities; role of nurses as change agents around sustainability; as well as other ideas.

To learn more about the journal www.naqjournal.com

Author guidelines at www.NAQjournal.com

We look forward to hearing from you!!!

Anna Gilmore Hall, RN,CAE
Executive Director
Health Care Without Harm
1901 N Moore St., Suite 509
Arlington, VA 22209
ph:   (703) 243-0056 X 29
Fax:  (703) 243-4008
agilmorehall@hcwh.org
www.noharm.org

Barbara Sattler, RN, DrPH, FAAN
Professor and Director
Environmental Health Education Center
University of Maryland School of Nursing
655 W. Lombard St, Rm 665
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 706-1849
bsattler@son.umaryland.edu
www.enviRN.umaryland.edu