This fall, American Nurses Publishing (ANP) is offering four new titles: an addition to each of ANP's two enduring series -- nursing quality studies and nursing practice standards -- and two career development books that focus on the business side of nursing.

Since the 1980s, ANA has been coordinating and publishing research on the quality of nursing care, contributing considerable data and insights in this field. The latest title on this topic is Nursing Quality Measurement: A Review of Nursing Studies 1995Ð2000, by Marilyn Rantz, PhD, RN, Jane Bostick, PhD, RN, and C. Jo Riggs, MSN, RN. Updating a similar 1995 ANP book by Rantz, this annotated literature review covers recent research studies that quantify many of the links between nursing performance and patient outcomes. Such research has been increasing in both sophistication and scope since the earlier work. In this book, more than 300 research-based studies measuring the quality of nursing care have been expertly selected, abstracted and organized in a manner useful for any health care professional. These studies cover hospital-based, long-term, home health, community health and ambulatory care settings. Offering practice implications and recommendations, this book will contribute to discussions and decisions on nurse staffing and staff mix issues.

The latest addition to ANA's growing series of nursing practice standards is Scope and Standards of Neuroscience Nursing Practice, developed in collaboration with the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses. Contemporary neuroscience nursing focuses on the care of individuals with nervous system dysfunction and the prevention thereof and applies across the lifespan and across all settings. Like others in the series, this publication articulates the essentials of a given area of nursing practice through an essay on the scope of that specialty's practice that sets the context for the standards of care and professional performance and their measurement criteria.

Of the two business titles, Nursing Leadership in the Organized Delivery System for the Acute Care Settings was written by Robin Purdy Newhouse, PHD, RN, and Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, as a practical guide for new and aspiring clinical, management or education nurse leaders. The organized delivery system (ODS), structures patient care services optimally by integrating that institution's fiscal and clinical operations at all levels. Reflecting the dynamic corporate realities of acute care, this book details the administrative and corporate aspects of acute care, the ODS itself and nurses' roles in it, its collaborative and multidisciplinary teams, and especially the strategies, structures and processes that promote clinical integration of care across the ODS.

For nurse practitioners who want to expand their roles and responsibilities in primary care delivery by learning how to manage the business side of a clinical practice, Susan Sportsman, PhD, CAN, RN, and Linda Hawley, PhD, RN, have written Critical Practice Management Strategies for Nurse Practitioners. All the basics NPs will need to develop the skills and strategies to succeed in this area are in this book. The authors present the specific business concepts, issues and practices--accounting, finances, budgeting and billing; health care funding systems; choices of NP employment settings; the managed care system; and quality, clinical performance and the bottom line--as applied to health care.

To order these or any other ANP publications, please call (800) 637-0323 or go to www.NursesBooks.org.

ANP seeks authors, reviewers

American Nurses Publishing (ANP) is seeking proposals for books and monographs on a variety of professional nursing topics. ANP offers authors royalties, free copies of published books and extensive exposure to the nursing profession through its promotions program. For more information, request an Author's Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts and Proposals from the address below (ask for the TAN Packet).

ANP also seeks nursing experts to review proposals under consideration for publication. Prospective reviewers should mail copies of their curricula vitae, including areas of expertise and complete contact information, to Editor/Project Manager, American Nurses Publishing, ANA, 600 Maryland Ave., SW, Suite 100W, Washington, DC 20024-2571; e-mail anpauthor@ana.org. Or visit our online bookstore at www.NursesBooks.org.