Submitting Papers. Authors are encouraged to submit to Home Health Care Management & Practice (HHCMP) articles that provide home health care professionals, clinical directors, and educators with an authoritative source of timely, relevant, practical information regarding current health care issues, clinical techniques, procedures, and approaches to home health care. Issues of HHCMP can be devoted to a single topic or current practice themes; upcoming issue topics are listed at the end of these instructions. HHCMP offers a blend of clinical and management articles that encompasses the coordinated responsibilities of nurses, managers, educators, chief executives, quality and risk managers, human resource professionals, administrators, and other practitioners. HHCMP is devoted to enhancing the effective coordination and delivery of home- and community-based care. Because the journal’s emphasis is on the practical information needed by health professionals, authors are encouraged to include checklists, guidelines, and other instruments designed to facilitate the provision of home health and community-based care and services. Acceptance or rejection of an article is determined through the peer review process. Manuscripts may be submitted as a Microsoft Word document via e-mail to bgingerich1@comcast.net. Alternatively, one copy of the manuscript along with an identical version on a PC-formatted disk in the Windows 97 version of Microsoft Word 7.0 may be sent to the journal editor, Barbara Stover Gingerich, 204 St. Charles Way, Unit E363, York, PA 17402; phone: 1-888-672-9843.
Abstract and Keywords. Articles must include an abstract of no more than 150 words and 4-5 keywords that describe the contents of the article such as those that appear in the Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) or the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH).
Author Information. A brief bio of approximately 50 words may be submitted at the end of the manuscript for inclusion in publication for the primary author and each contributor to the manuscript. In addition, all authors and contributors must provide a mailing address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address so that queries and page proofs may be promptly processed.
Copyright. Authors must release copyright ownership of their manuscript at the time of its submission. A Copyright Transfer form (supplied by the publisher) must accompany the manuscript before processing for publication can begin. It is understood that articles submitted to be published in HHCMP will not be submitted to any other publication.
Typing and Format. Use 8½" by 11" white, nonerasable paper. Double-space all copy, including quotations, lists, and references/notes. Use one side of the paper only. Do not right justify. Leave a 1-inch margin on all sides. Order the pages as follows: title page, abstract, text, references, appendixes, tables, and figures. Number pages consecutively, beginning with the first page of text. The title page should carry (l) the title of the article, (2) author names (with highest academic degrees) and affiliations (including titles, departments, and name and location of institutions to which the work should be attributed), and (3) any acknowledgments or credits.
Permissions. Authors are responsible for obtaining signed letters from copyright holders granting permission to reprint material being borrowed from other sources, including previously published material of your own. Permission is needed when you use any written material that has not been created and submitted to Sage for a specific publication (including forms, checklists, cartoons, text, tables, figures, exhibits, glossaries, and pamphlets); concepts, theories, or formulas used exclusively in a chapter or section; direct quotes from a book or journal that are over 30% of a printed page; and all excerpts from newspapers or other short articles.
Permission to Adapt. If you want to redraw, reword, modify, or adapt material being reprinted, you must also obtain permission to do so from the copyright holder.
Fee payment. Copyright holders sometimes require that a fee be paid before granting permission. It is the author’s responsibility to pay this fee.
References. References must be cited in text and styled in the reference list according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th edition. References should be typed double-spaced and placed at the end of the text.
Tables. Type each table on a separate sheet, remembering to double-space. Number tables consecutively and mention each in text. Supply a brief title for each table. Type explanatory statements, notes, or keys below the table. Explain in footnotes all nonstandard abbreviations. Type source and permission lines below the table. Type credit lines exactly as requested by the original copyright holder.
Figures. Number figures consecutively and mention each in text. Supply a caption for each figure, typed double-spaced on a sheet separate from the artwork. Captions should include the figure title; explanatory statements, notes, or keys; and source and permission lines. As with the tables, indicate the source of the figures.
Artwork. Artwork is anything that cannot be typeset on modern typesetting equipment. All line drawings are artwork even if the descriptors can be typeset because the descriptors must be inserted by hand. Camera-ready art is any material that needs only to be photographed and/or sized (reduced or enlarged) to be ready for printing. Examples of camera-ready art are original copies of printed items such as forms, tests, charts, checklists, and legal documents. Authors are responsible for providing art that is camera ready. Send one complete set of camera-ready art with the original manuscript and a copy of the art with each copy of the manuscript.
Halftones. Halftones are black-and-white photographs. If you use halftones in your article, submit original, glossy, black-and-white prints, approximately 5" by 7" or 8" by 10". Label each halftone on the back indicating the top of the figure. Provide a model’s release, or written permission, from each person whose full face appears in any photograph. Because it is likely that halftones will be cropped, indicate the essential portion of each print. Use removable cropping tape or indicate cropping on a photocopy of the halftone.
Manuscript Due Dates. All manuscripts must be received no later than the due date as agreed upon with the journal editor. Unsolicited manuscripts will be accepted. Submit your manuscript and share your organization’s successes, challenges, and future visions.
Upcoming Topical Themes
22.3 Management and Clinical Topics –
Always of interest is clinical and management initiatives. This issue provides a look at clinical and operational issues, accomplishments, opportunities and concerns and offers an opportunity for professional to contribute manuscripts on a wide range of topics. Submit your manuscript and share your organization’s successes, new programs, challenges and future visions. Send your manuscripts for consideration for inclusion to Editor Barbara Stover Gingerich RN MS FACHE CHCE at advantagehcmr@comcast.net
22.4 Global Community Care –
This issue looks at diversity and ethnicity on a national and international basis. Manuscripts explore strategies and opportunities in the provision of quality care to diverse populations presenting in global health care delivery settings. It examines international care from student and licenses professional’s perspectives.. Send your manuscripts for consideration for inclusion to Editor Barbara Stover Gingerich RN MS FACHE CHCE at advantagehcmr@comcast.net
22.5 Management and Clinical Topics
Up to date clinical and management initiatives. This issue combines both clinical and operational issues, accomplishments, opportunities and concerns along with research and technology topics. This is an opportunity for professional to contribute manuscripts on a wide range of topics. Submit your manuscript and share your organization’s successes, new programs, challenges and future visions. Send your manuscripts for consideration for inclusion to Editor, Barbara Stover Gingerich, RN MS FACHE CHCE at advantagehcmr@comcast.net Volume
22.6 International Community Care
A look at the international care community, including approaches to nursing education, orientation and precepting new graduates and other innovative and current approaches used in facing the many challenges of health care delivery today.
Volume 23- Issues to Be Determined -
Education, Training and Competency: What’s New, What’s Effective- Issue Editor: Needed
This issue brings together new and advanced techniques for educating patients, staff and community. Integrated within our health care organizations are learners from school settings of the 1960’s to the 2000’s, this issue assists organizations in designing staff and patient education that meets the needs of this diverse audience. Topics include E learning, preceptoring, technology integration and tried and successful approaches to learning. Please submit your manuscripts related to education, including how your organization educates and how students and staff are prepared to function within the practice setting. Send your manuscripts for consideration to Editor Barbara Stover Gingerich RN MS FACHE CHCE at
advantagehcmr@comcast.net
Naturopathic Treatment Modalities within the Community Care Setting- Issue Editors - Ryan Robbins BA, ND candidate, 2010, Bastyr University and Carmen Germaine Warner, MSN, MAT, RN, FAAN
This issue features a selection of topics from naturopathic fields that address the importance of these disciplines and treatment options within the community care settings. Articles to be provided include basic nutrition in the home health care setting, hydrotherapy treatments within the home setting, natural approaches to insomnia, mood improvement, weight management, and hypoglycemia. Submit your manuscript and share your organization’s naturopathic approaches to care. Send manuscripts for consideration to Editor Stover Gingerich RN MS FACHE CHCE at advantagehcmr@comcast.net
Human Resource Management in Community Based Health Care Organizations – Merrily Orsini, MSSW
This issue provides a look at human resources, strategies, opportunities, and quality approaches to recruitment, training, retention and operations. Share your organization’s accomplishments, with other professional and contribute a manuscript on any related topic. Submit your manuscript for consideration and share your organization’s successes, new programs, challenges and future visions, to Editor Barbara Stover Gingerich RN MS FACHE CHCE at advantagehcmr@comcast.net
Seeking Issue Editors for the following Topics:
· Rural and Urban Care Delivery
· Information Systems: Putting Them to Work For You
· Wound Care and Evidenced Based Practice Update
· Technology and Care Advances in the Home
· Community Based Technology Systems – Electronic Health Care Files
· Reimbursement Streams- Finding new Revenue Dollars
· Ethics and Bioethics in Home and Community Based Care
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