A Nurse's Step-By-Step Guide to Writing A Dissertation or Scholarly Project, Second Edition - Softcover

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Karen Roush, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, is Assistant Professor of Nursing at Pace University in New York where she teaches doctoral and graduate students. Roush served for many years as Editorial Director and Clinical Managing Editor of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) and is currently News Director for the journal. She received her PhD in nursing research and theory development from the College of Nursing at New York University. She started her nursing education with an associate degree in nursing from Adirondack Community College in 1982, went on for her BSN at Russell Sage College, and then earned a master's degree at Columbia University in 1996, where she specialized as afamily nurse practitioner. Roush is the founder of The Scholar's Voice, which works to strengthen the voice of nursing through writing mentorship for nurses. She is an award-winning writer who has authored multiple consumer healthcare books, numerous nursing articles in peerreviewed journals, essays, and poetry. Roush received the award for Outstanding Doctoral Graduate at NYU College of Nursingin 2014 and the Fred Schmidt Award for Humanitarian Focused Research in 2011. She has traveled to Rwanda, Uganda, and Indiaas a nursing volunteer and taught nursing students in Ghana. In addition, she was a visiting scholar in the Department of HumanResources for Health at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.