A nurse's guide to presenting and publishing: dare to share

About the Author

Contributors

Prelude

Reader's Quiz

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section 1. Small Steps to Open to Your Creativity

Chapter 1. Introduction: What Do Nurses Who Dare to Share Have?

Chapter 2. I Am a Nurse and I Am Creative

Chapter 3. What's Your Something Special?

Chapter 4. How to Recognize Your Inner Critic

Chapter 5. How to Take a Creative Time-Out

Chapter 6. How Do Artist's Dates Prime Your Creativity Pump?

Chapter 7. How to Write Yourself into a Reflective Practice

Chapter 8. Why a Support Circle?

Chapter 9. Conclusion: Commit to a Creative Next Step

Section 2. Small Steps to Present What You Do

Chapter 10. Introduction: How Are Presentations Defined?

Chapter 11. I Bring Beginner's Mind to My Life as a Nurse

Chapter 12. What's Your Preference as a Learner?

Chapter 13. What's Your Something Special as a Presenter?

Chapter 14. What's Your Presenting Style?

Chapter 15. What's Your Greatest Challenge as a Presenter?

Chapter 16. How to Overcome the Shyness Challenge

Chapter 17. How to Get Physical with Your Still-Point Strategy

Chapter 18. How to Divide Your Presentation Project into Steps

Chapter 19. How to Find the Ideas in Your Challenges

Chapter 20. What's Your Idea's Glitter Score?

Chapter 21. What's a Presentation Worksheet?

Chapter 22. How to Whittle Your Idea to Presentation-Size Focus

Chapter 23. What's Your Purpose?

Chapter 24. Who's Your Audience?

Chapter 25. How to Choreograph Your Venue

Chapter 26. What Response Are You Seeking from Your Audience?

Chapter 27. How to Take the Dare Out of Your Literature Search

Chapter 28. How to Snag a Sweet-Spot Slant

Chapter 29. How to Complete Your Presentation Worksheet

Chapter 30. How to Write Your One-Sentence Description

Chapter 31. How to Translate Worksheets into Proposals

Chapter 32. How to Pick a Peer Mentor

Chapter 33. How to Decide Whether to Go Solo or Co-Present

Chapter 34. How to Negotiate Mindful Presenting Relationships

Chapter 35. How to Design Presentations That Show and Tell

Chapter 36. How to Kolb Longer Presentations

Chapter 37. How to Ensure That Presentations Are Internally Consistent

Chapter 38. How to Assess Audience Response

Chapter 39. How to Perk Up Presentation Packets

Chapter 40. How to Power Up Your Use of PowerPoint

Chapter 41. How to Prepare Who Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 42. How to Prepare What Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 43. How to Prepare How Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 44. How to Get the Most from Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 45. How to Prepare for Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 46. How to Make the Most of Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors

Chapter 47. Why a Storytelling Chapter?

Chapter 48. How to Make Sure Your Poster Is Worth a Thousand Words

Chapter 49. Conclusion: Commit to Presenting What You Do

Section 3. Small Steps to Write About What You Do

Chapter 50. Introduction: Why Do Nurse Authors Get Addicted to Writing?

Chapter 51. I Work Smart

Chapter 52. What Makes Writing Easier for You?

Chapter 53. What Makes Writing Difficult for You?

Chapter 54. What Are the Benefits of Writing About What You Do?

Chapter 55. How to Get to Know Your Sweetheart

Chapter 56. How Would You Describe Your Writing Style?

Chapter 57. How to Write Yourself into Still Point

Chapter 58. How to See if Your Idea Has Enough Eye-Glitter for a Publication

Chapter 59. How Choosing Your Readership Decides Your Vehicle

Chapter 60. How to Select Potential Professional Vehicles

Chapter 61. How to Elicit Your Desired Reader Response

Chapter 62. How Presentation Worksheets Become Publication Worksheets

Chapter 63. How to Write Queries That Sell Editors on Your Idea

Chapter 64. What You Need to Know Before Querying Editors

Chapter 65. How to Rate an Editor's Response to Your Query

Chapter 66. What You Need to Proceed With Your Writing Project

Chapter 67. What to Consider as Your Craft Your Timeline

Chapter 68. How to Tell if You're a Free-Writer, a Mind-Mapper, or an Outliner

Chapter 69. How to Leap from Outlines to Manuscripts

Chapter 70. How to Think Like an Editor When Preparing Your Manuscript

Chapter 71. How to Choose Peer Editors and Request Peer Editing

Chapter 72. How to Request, Respond to, and Reward Peer Editing

Chapter 73. What to Do When Receiving or Giving Peer Editing Feedback

Chapter 74. How to Peer Edit

Chapter 75. How to Celebrate Revisions and Thrive on Rejections

Chapter 76. How to Work Smart by Turning Co-Presenters into Co-Authors

Chapter 77. How a Nurse-Author's Story May Change Your Life

Chapter 78. How My Students Helped Me to Actualize a Childhood Dream

Chapter 79. Conclusion: Commit to Writing About What You Do

Section 4. Small Steps to Cultivate Support Circles

Chapter 80. Introduction: Who Are These Nurses Called Colleague-Friends?

Chapter 81. I Reach Out and Receive with Gratitude

Chapter 82. What Can You Learn from Drawing Your Support Circle?

Chapter 83. How to Add Intentions to Your Still-Point Strategies

Chapter 84. How to Put the Pizzazz in Peer-Mentoring Partnerships

Chapter 85. How to Check if Creative Collaborations Pass the Zest Test

Chapter 86. How to Trade an Editor's Red Pen for a Peer Editor's Compassion

Chapter 87. What's a Resonator?

Chapter 88. What Are Three Words That Turn Competitions into Collaborations?

Chapter 89. How Expressing Wishes and Concerns Keeps Collaborations Zestful

Chapter 90. Conclusion: Commit to Cultivating Support Circles

Section 5. Small Steps: Send Off

Chapter 91. Introduction: Why Dream About Nurses Taking the Dare to Share?

Chapter 92. How to Activate Your Compassion by Daring to Share

Chapter 93. How to Get a Glow from the Flow of Good Work

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Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Appendix D

Index