SUNY Delhi Professor Earns Book of the Year Award

DELHI, NY (02/17/2010)(readMedia)-- SUNY Delhi Nursing Professor Deborah S. Adelman, Ph.D., RN, NE-BC, CNS, has received the American Journal of Nursing (AJN) Book of the Year Award for Disaster Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, a book she co-authored with Timothy J. Legg.

"This award exemplifies the exceptional scholarly level of our faculty," said Dr. Mary Pat Lewis, professor and chair of SUNY Delhi's Nursing and Allied Health program.

The book, which was the only entry recognized in the "Community-Public Health" category, offers essential information on disaster preparedness, hospital and community nursing response, and disaster nursing roles from first responder to disaster volunteer. The book also covers disaster leadership and management in hospitals and on sites, and covers the treatment of vulnerable populations in a disaster, including children, pregnant women, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

Published annually in the January issue of the American Journal of Nursing, the Book of the Year program is a prestigious competition that garners the attention of the Journal's 342,000 readers, as well as librarians and faculty who are not subscribers. The AJN has been publishing an annual list of the best in nursing publishing since 1969. The most valuable texts of each year are chosen by AJN's panel of judges.

Dr. Adelman is a faculty member of SUNY Delhi's Bachelor of Science in Nursing. Delhi began offering a Bachelor of Science in Nursing in January 2008, the first degree of its kind to be offered totally online in New York State. Delhi's online RN to BSN program is designed for registered nurses who wish to pursue a bachelor's degree but who cannot attend classes because they are place-bound.