Healthy praise for nursing texbook
Published on 10 August, 2010
A nursing textbook featuring major contributions by CQUniversity academics has been highly commended* in the recent Australian Awards for Educational Publishing, conducted by the Australian Publishing Association.
The first Australian edition of the three-volume Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing was entered in the Adaptation Tertiary Teaching and Learning Category for the awards.
An awards spokesman said more than 20 titles were submitted in this category. Very few were short-listed and only one was highly commended.
The awards catalogue is circulated to all school, public and university libraries. It's also used by Austrade for book fairs and other international industry events where the rights of Australian publications are traded.
Our contributing academics recently celebrated news that the Pearson Education textbook is now the standard nursing text in more than half of Australia's universities.
Although the textbook was a nationwide collaboration, CQUniversity academics have been central to its development.
CQUniversity Nursing academics Associate Professor Lorna Moxham, Dr Trudy Dwyer and Dr Kerry Reid-Searl have contributed as unit coordinating authors and chapter contributions have come from Dr Sandra Walker, Judith Applegarth and Associate Professor Peter Reaburn.
"So far the students have been excited to open the textbooks and see so many lecturers from CQUniversity involved in the writing and seeing the photos of staff," Dr Dwyer said.
"This has given them a real buzz and a great sense of ownership of the text when they take it out into the clinical environment."
* Highly Commended is an honour only bestowed on a selected number of titles from 180 entries. In the 12 months since publication, Kozier and Erb's Fundamentals of Nursing: 1st Australian edition has become the market-leading fundamentals text in Australia.
About the Awards
Established in 1994, these Awards build on the concept of improving the quality of Australian educational materials. The Awards are judged for clarity of writing, pedagogical implications, illustrations, special features and characteristics, quality of subject matter, innovation and flair.
