School of Nursing authors win national publishing awards
Published on 26 August, 2011
A group of CQUniversity School of Nursing and Midwifery academics are proud as punch after winning a national publishing award, reflecting their contributions to a new Medical-Surgical Nursing textbook...
Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking in Client Care, First Australian Edition and MyNursingKit has been announced as a 'joint winner' in the category of 'Tertiary (adaptation) Teaching and Learning Resource', as part of the Australian Educational Publishing Awards 2011 (run by the Australian Publishing Association). This book shared the award as joint winner with a Statistics textbook.
Congratulations also to Associate Professor Mental Health Nursing Dr Anthony Welch whose publication entitled Mental Health Nursing: Dimensions of Praxis has won the 'Tertiary Education (wholly Australian) - Teaching and Learning Resource Category' in the Australian Educational Publishing Awards. LINK also to Publishing award for CQUni mental health nursing academic
Associate Professors Lorna Moxham, Kerry Reid-Searl and Trudy Dwyer formed a major part of the editorial team for Medical-Surgical Nursing. Meanwhile, Judith Applegarth, Sandra Walker, Marc Broadbent and Diane Goldsworthy contributed their expertise to various chapters.
This text has been written to provide students with a strong knowledge base, an understanding of contemporary practice issues in Australia and the capacity for sound clinical decision making.
Dr Anthony Welch's award-winning 'Mental Health Nursing: Dimensions of Praxis'
A representative of publishing firm Pearson Australia has described the win as "a wonderful achievement for a first edition, particularly for a book of this scope and complexity".
In the awards catalogue which is distributed widely the following judges comments about the publication will be circulated:
"This title represents a major publishing achievement to support nursing education in Australia. The volumes are chunked sensibly regarding the course topics, with the Australian content really well integrated. The publication demonstrates clear pedagogy and is well designed, with the resource packs comprehensive with excellent instructional videos. For a publication of this comprehensiveness, the value of having a large number of local contributors from a broad range of fields really adds to the academic rigour."
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