Nursing Dean Earns Second Consecutive AJN Book Award
A book co-authored by Nursing Dean Dr. Mary Ellen Glasgow has earned the 2012 Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), the second time in as many years that one of her books garnered the prize.
Legal Issues Confronting Today’s Nursing Faculty: A Case Study Approach was selected for the prestigious AJN award in the Nursing Education category. Glasgow wrote the book with H. Michael Dreher, a former colleague from Drexel University College of Nursing & Health Professions, and Carl Oxholm III, a higher education attorney and president of Arcadia University. Glasgow collaborated with Dreher to write the content and served as lead author of the book, while Oxholm ensured the book’s legal accuracy.
Each year, the AJN Book of the Year program selects the best new works germane to the nursing profession, and by doing so has drawn the attention of readers as well as librarians and nursing faculty members. The program includes 17 categories, with a panel of experts determining winners in each category.
In addition to clinical failures and other practice-related issues, Glasgow explained, educators encounter situations involving discrimination, harassment, academic freedom, substance abuse and mental health, as well as disputes involving intellectual property, online learning and social media. In other words, nursing is never immune to differences of opinion possessing the potential to result in litigation.
According to the AJN award citation, Glasgow’s book provides “a framework for dealing with situations in accordance with existing laws and institutional policy before a lawyer is involved…every faculty member should have access to the information in this book.”
Role Development for Doctoral Advanced Nursing Practice, a book that Glasgow and Dreher edited, won the 2011 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Advanced Practice Nursing category. While that book was published when Glasgow was a member of the Drexel faculty, several Duquesne nursing faculty contributed content, including Sr. Rosemary Donley, holder of the Jacques Laval Chair in Justice for Vulnerable Populations, Dr. Eileen Zungolo, the former dean, and Dr. Rick Zoucha.