Wolters Kluwer Medical & Nursing Journals Honored With Prestigious APEX Awards

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August 28, 2024

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced that 15 of its Lippincott healthcare journal titles received 37 wins in the 2024 Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX) Competition. Seven of these titles received a record ten prestigious Grand Awards: Oncology Times, American Journal of Nursing, Nurse Educator, Neurology Today, Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and Nursing2024.

"The annual APEX awards recognize high caliber journalistic and research standards. The collaboration by the Wolters Kluwer publishing and editorial teams alongside our society partners has been exceptional. Setting a new record of ten Grand Awards is amazing and we are proud of everyone whose hard work is reflected in this achievement." -- Jennifer Brogan, Vice President, Global Journal Publishing & Society Solutions at Wolters Kluwer Health Learning, Research & Practice

Based on excellence in editorial content, graphic design, and overall communications, the APEX awards have been recognizing extraordinary work by professional communicators since 1988. At a time when research and publishing sectors are facing continual change, more than 1,100 nominations were submitted. A total of 100 Grand Award Winners were selected, honoring outstanding works in top-level categories, while 439 Awards of Excellence recognized notable entries in a range of sub-categories.

Wolters Kluwer Health’s awards include:

Grand Awards 

• Oncology Times: Writing/Type of Media Writing | “Sparrow’s Nest Feeds Body & Spirit of Cancer Patients & Families” 
• American Journal of Nursing: Writing/Type of Media Writing | “Reflections: A Helping Hand: A School Nurse Offers a Desperate Young Mother Compassion” and “Reflections: Love in the PICU: The Hidden Language of Nurses” 
• Nurse Educator: Writing Topics | “Bringing Gender-Affirming Care to Primary Care: Use of a Multimodal Curriculum to Educate Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Practitioner Students” 
• American Journal of Nursing: Writing Topics | “Suicide Prevention: Protecting the Future of Nurses” 
• Neurology Today: Writing Topics | Artificial Intelligence in Neurology 
• Nursing Made Incredibly Easy: Electronic Media | Nursing Isn’t Easy Podcast 
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Campaigns, Programs & Plans | PRS Journal Club 
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Public Concerns & Trending Topics | Health Policy Collection 
• Nursing2024: Public Concerns & Trending Topics | “Helping children and adolescents who lost a caregiver during the COVID-19 pandemic”

Awards of Excellence 

• American Journal of Nursing: Writing/Type of Media – Feature Writing | “Ethical Care for Patients with Self-Managed Abortion After Roe” 
• Nurse Educator: Writing / Type of Media - Regular Departments & Columns | “Technology”
• Journal of the American Academy of PAs: Writing/Type of Media – Regular Departments & Columns 
  • “More to the story” 
  • “In lieu of flowers” 
  • “Witnessing miracles” 
• Nurse Educator: Writing/Type of Media – Editorial & Advocacy Writing | “Using AI to Write Scholarly Articles in Nursing” 
• American Journal of Nursing: Writing/Type of Media – Editorial & Advocacy Writing | “The Kids are Still Not Alright” 
• Emergency Medicine News: Writing/Type of Media – Editorial & Advocacy Writing | “Nurses Called ‘Doctor’” 
• American Journal of Nursing: Writing/Type of Media – How-to-Writing | “How to Write an Effective Résumé” 
• Brain & Life: Writing/Topics – Health & Medical Writing | “How Caregivers Deal with Anticipatory Grief” 
• Emergency Medicine News: Writing/Topics – Health & Medical Writing | “Aortic Dissection: Missed and Mis-Diagnoses” 
• PRS GO: Writing/Topics – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | “Targeting Inclusive Excellence in Plastic Surgery - a PRS Global Open Mini-Series from the ASPS Diversity and Inclusion Committee” 
• Nurse Educator: Writing/Topics – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | “Impact of a Virtual Patient Simulation on Nursing Students' Attitudes of Transgender Care” 
• American Journal of Nursing: Writing/Topics – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | “Ableism in Health Care” 
• The Nurse Practitioner: Writing/Topics – Diversity, Equity & Inclusion | “Evidence-based sexual healthcare for the LGBTQIA2+ patient across the lifespan”
• Nursing2024: Writing/Topics – Mental Health/Mental Illness | “The hidden crisis of nurse suicide”
• Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: Writing/Topics – Technology | “Medication-assisted treatment 24-hr waiver training for opioid use disorder: Lessons learned” 
• Nursing Made Incredibly Easy: Magazines, Journals & Tabloids – Print | January/February, Volume 22, Issue 1 
• Nursing Management: Magazines, Journals, & Tabloids – Writing | November 2023, “Safety Solutions”
• Neurology Today: Journals & Tabloids – Magazine Series | “Alzheimer’s Disease’s New Treatment Landscape” 
  • “Will Lecanemab Win FDA Approval? The Stakes Are High as Phase 3 Results Show Efficacy” 
  • “Considering Lecanemab for Alzheimer's Disease? Testing for Biomarkers May Offer No Easy Answers” 
  • “APOE Genotyping Will Play a Major Role in Lecanemab Prescribing The Clinical, Ethical, and Financial Ramifications” 
  • “The FDA and CMS Have Pressed the Go Button on Lecanemab What Happens Now?” 
  • “More Than Half of Commercial Payers Are Denying Coverage for Lecanemab” 
  • “Alzheimer Monoclonal Antibody Registries: How Will They Work Together and What Data Will Be Collected?” 
• Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: Electronic Media/Video Media | PRS Video Discussions 
• PRS GO: Electronic Media – Apps & Podcasts | “Deep Cuts” Podcast 
• American Journal of Nursing: Design & Illustration – Covers | April 2023 
• American Journal of Nursing: Social Media – Best Single Blog Post | Off the Charts, “Why Practice Dying: A Nurses Perspective”
• Oncology Times: Social Media – Best Series of Blog Posts | “View From the Other Side of the Stethoscope” 
• PRS GO: Social Media – Special Purpose | “Face the Case” 
• The Nurse Practitioner: Annual Reports – Print | “35th Annual APRN Legislative Update: Updates to APRN Practice Authority in the United States” 
• ASA Monitor: Public Concerns & Trending Topics | “A Path Forward for AI in Anesthesia: Solutions and Future Applications” 
• ASA Monitor: Public Concerns & Trending Topics | “Gain Changers: New Generation of Weight Loss Medications”