Speaking of nursing-- : narratives of practice, research, policy, and the profession / Donna Diers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Clinical nursing research -- Patient centered mental health nursing research -- Application of research to nursing practice -- The role of continuing education in promoting research in practice -- Generations in nursing research -- Practicing research, researching practice -- Richness in practice, diversity in research -- Clinical scholarship -- Editorials -- Clinical scholarship -- On clinical scholarship (again) --

Second thoughts -- Advanced practice nursing -- Research and nurse practitioners: lessons from nursing's past -- Nurses in primary care: the new gatekeepers -- Nurse practitioners: skirmishes, strategies, successes -- Nurse practitioners: letter to the editor -- Between science and humanity: nursing reclaims its role -- Second thoughts -- Nursing, policy and leadership -- To profess - to be a professional -- Lessons on leadership -- The emperor has no clothes -- Beyond Chicken Little -- Nursing and shortages -- Whoa! -- Between practice and policy -- Second thoughts -- Writing nursing -- Why write? why publish? -- The role of the editor --

Colonizing: a measurement of the development of a profession -- Congratulations, you're the worst! -- Editorials -- On words -- On modern language -- The adventure of thought and the adventure of action -- Finding nursing -- The power of narrative -- Knowing what I know now... -- Second thoughts.

Diers (professor emerita, Yale University School of Nursing; Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health, University of Technology, Australia), a nursing leader in Australia, is one of the earliest proponents of research conducted by clinicians as well as trained researchers. Spanning 40 years, this collection of her essays, speeches, and papers prov.