Four Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Nursing Books Win AJN Book of the Year

PHILADELPHIA, March 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) awarded the prestigious AJN Book of the Year award to four nursing textbooks published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW).  LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.  LWW publications were honored in the categories of nursing research, critical care emergency nursing, community public health and electronic media.

"We are pleased that so many of our books have been recognized by AJN," said Julie Stegman, Vice President of Publishing at Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional & Education.  "Recognition by your colleagues is a great affirmation that our efforts to provide superior learning tools for nursing students and practicing nurses are on track.  We are honored to work with so many quality authors who understand what students, teachers and nurses need in today's ever changing healthcare world."

AJN is the nation's oldest and largest circulating nursing journal and one of the most highly respected. Its AJN Book of the Year Award competition draws hundreds of submissions by authors from various fields in the nursing profession. A distinguished panel of judges selects those considered the most valuable texts each year.

AJN named the following LWW products Book of the Year for 2011:

Community–Public Health Book of the Year  
Community and Public Health Nursing: Evidence for Practice, edited by Gail A. Harkness and Rosanna F. DeMarco.
This is a comprehensive, applied core textbook for students in baccalaureate programs who are preparing to be generalists in community health and public health nursing. The principles of epidemiology and basic biostatistics are integrated with the core principles of CHN & PHN throughout this text.

Critical Care–Emergency Nursing Book of the Year
Quick Reference to Critical Care, by Nancy H. Diepenbrock
This paperback, pocket-sized text provides a compilation of essential critical care procedures, including their indication and implementation. It is a valuable bedside reference for both students and practicing critical care nurses.

Electronic Media Product of the Year
Lippincott's Nursing Health Assessment Video Series
This six volume series presents 23 assessment topics addressing all of the body systems and demonstrates subjective and objective data collection methods. This series can be used to augment any nursing health assessment text for undergraduate nursing students.

Nursing Research Book of the Year  
Nursing Research: Generating and Assessing Evidence for Nursing Practice, by Denise F. Polit and Cheryl Tatano Beck
In the ninth edition of a classic textbook, the authors present state-of-the-art methods for conducting high-quality studies. The resource manual includes application exercises, models of comprehensive research critiques, a full NINR grant application, and a complete toolkit on CD-ROM.

About Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services.

LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading global provider of information, business intelligence and point-of-care solutions for the healthcare industry. Wolters Kluwer Health is part of Wolters Kluwer, a market-leading global information services company with 2010 annual revenues of euro 3.6 billion ($4.7 billion).

SOURCE Wolters Kluwer Health