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Published on: June 21, 2010
Self-Publishing: A Novel Incentive to Write in Graduate Nursing Education
1About the Author Julee Waldrop, DNP, PNP-BC, CNE, FAANP, FAAN, is a professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and associate editor for the Journal for Nurse Practitioners. For more information, contact her at jwaldrop@unc.edu.
Abstract:
Professional communication and the dissemination of expertise are expected of nurses prepared at the doctoral level. However, little emphasis is placed on opportunities for professional writing in most clinically focused doctoral programs for nurse practitioners. This innovative extracurricular writing project provided a professional writing experience for novice writers, helping them gain the confidence needed to achieve dissemination beyond the educational setting in the form of a self-published e-book. This project could be used for many other types of writing in nursing.
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