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| About the Author | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Prelude | |
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| Reader's Quiz | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Small Steps to Open to Your Creativity | |
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| Introduction: What Do Nurses Who Dare to Share Have? | |
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| I Am a Nurse and I Am Creative | |
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| What's Your Something Special? | |
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| How to Recognize Your Inner Critic | |
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| How to Take a Creative Time-Out | |
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| How Do Artist's Dates Prime Your Creativity Pump? | |
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| How to Write Yourself into a Reflective Practice | |
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| Why a Support Circle? | |
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| Conclusion: Commit to a Creative Next Step | |
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| Small Steps to Present What You Do | |
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| Introduction: How Are Presentations Defined? | |
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| I Bring Beginner's Mind to My Life as a Nurse | |
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| What's Your Preference as a Learner? | |
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| What's Your Something Special as a Presenter? | |
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| What's Your Presenting Style? | |
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| What's Your Greatest Challenge as a Presenter? | |
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| How to Overcome the Shyness Challenge | |
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| How to Get Physical with Your Still-Point Strategy | |
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| How to Divide Your Presentation Project into Steps | |
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| How to Find the Ideas in Your Challenges | |
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| What's Your Idea's Glitter Score? | |
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| What's a Presentation Worksheet? | |
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| How to Whittle Your Idea to Presentation-Size Focus | |
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| What's Your Purpose? | |
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| Who's Your Audience? | |
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| How to Choreograph Your Venue | |
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| What Response Are You Seeking from Your Audience? | |
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| How to Take the Dare Out of Your Literature Search | |
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| How to Snag a Sweet-Spot Slant | |
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| How to Complete Your Presentation Worksheet | |
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| How to Write Your One-Sentence Description | |
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| How to Translate Worksheets into Proposals | |
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| How to Pick a Peer Mentor | |
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| How to Decide Whether to Go Solo or Co-Present | |
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| How to Negotiate Mindful Presenting Relationships | |
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| How to Design Presentations That Show and Tell | |
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| How to Kolb Longer Presentations | |
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| How to Ensure That Presentations Are Internally Consistent | |
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| How to Assess Audience Response | |
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| How to Perk Up Presentation Packets | |
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| How to Power Up Your Use of PowerPoint | |
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| How to Prepare Who Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| How to Prepare What Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| How to Prepare How Questions for Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| How to Get the Most from Pre-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| How to Prepare for Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| How to Make the Most of Post-Sessions with Peer Mentors | |
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| Why a Storytelling Chapter? | |
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| How to Make Sure Your Poster Is Worth a Thousand Words | |
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| Conclusion: Commit to Presenting What You Do | |
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| Small Steps to Write About What You Do | |
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| Introduction: Why Do Nurse Authors Get Addicted to Writing? | |
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| I Work Smart | |
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| What Makes Writing Easier for You? | |
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| What Makes Writing Difficult for You? | |
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| What Are the Benefits of Writing About What You Do? | |
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| How to Get to Know Your Sweetheart | |
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| How Would You Describe Your Writing Style? | |
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| How to Write Yourself into Still Point | |
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| How to See if Your Idea Has Enough Eye-Glitter for a Publication | |
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| How Choosing Your Readership Decides Your Vehicle | |
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| How to Select Potential Professional Vehicles | |
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| How to Elicit Your Desired Reader Response | |
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| How Presentation Worksheets Become Publication Worksheets | |
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| How to Write Queries That Sell Editors on Your Idea | |
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| What You Need to Know Before Querying Editors | |
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| How to Rate an Editor's Response to Your Query | |
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| What You Need to Proceed With Your Writing Project | |
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| What to Consider as Your Craft Your Timeline | |
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| How to Tell if You're a Free-Writer, a Mind-Mapper, or an Outliner | |
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| How to Leap from Outlines to Manuscripts | |
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| How to Think Like an Editor When Preparing Your Manuscript | |
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| How to Choose Peer Editors and Request Peer Editing | |
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| How to Request, Respond to, and Reward Peer Editing | |
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| What to Do When Receiving or Giving Peer Editing Feedback | |
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| How to Peer Edit | |
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| How to Celebrate Revisions and Thrive on Rejections | |
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| How to Work Smart by Turning Co-Presenters into Co-Authors | |
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| How a Nurse-Author's Story May Change Your Life | |
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| How My Students Helped Me to Actualize a Childhood Dream | |
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| Conclusion: Commit to Writing About What You Do | |
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| Small Steps to Cultivate Support Circles | |
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| Introduction: Who Are These Nurses Called Colleague-Friends? | |
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| I Reach Out and Receive with Gratitude | |
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| What Can You Learn from Drawing Your Support Circle? | |
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| How to Add Intentions to Your Still-Point Strategies | |
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| How to Put the Pizzazz in Peer-Mentoring Partnerships | |
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| How to Check if Creative Collaborations Pass the Zest Test | |
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| How to Trade an Editor's Red Pen for a Peer Editor's Compassion | |
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| What's a Resonator? | |
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| What Are Three Words That Turn Competitions into Collaborations? | |
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| How Expressing Wishes and Concerns Keeps Collaborations Zestful | |
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| Conclusion: Commit to Cultivating Support Circles | |
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| Small Steps: Send Off | |
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| Introduction: Why Dream About Nurses Taking the Dare to Share? | |
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| How to Activate Your Compassion by Daring to Share | |
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| How to Get a Glow from the Flow of Good Work | |
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| Coda | |
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| Appendix A | |
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| Appendix B | |
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| Appendix C | |
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| Appendix D | |
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| Index | |