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Imprint Career Planning Guides

Imprint publishes a Career Planning Guide issue every January, online-only.
​Scroll down for Career Planning Guides from the past 10 years. 
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click on the title of feature listed. 
Please contact NSNA for older print issues. 
​For other Imprint issues, go to Imprint Archive
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2023

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Finding Your Fit: Exploring Nursing’s Endless Possibilities
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • Nursing Research: Not as Boring as you Might Think
                By Betsy Chambers and Suzanne Prevost
  • Minimizing Risk as You Advance in Your Career
                 By Cynthia Saver and Georgia Reiner
  • Medical Surgical Nursing: Career Springboard...or Nursing Specialty...or Both?
                 By Andie V. Melendez
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae? You Need Both! 
                 By Diane J. Mancino
  • Reflections: A Nursing Student's Perspective of a Patient's Death
                 By Erika Gotway

2022

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Choose Your Fighter: Career Planning and Specialties Guide
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • Advancing Nurse Practice -- Clinical Nurse Specialists, For Example 
                By Robin Koeppel and Amanda Williams
  • Inspired to Specialize in Gerontological Nursing 
                 By Alexis Roam
  • Insta-Inspiration 
                 By Everett Moss II
  • Reflections: The Basics Matter 
                 By Taylor Lynn Bell
  • Examining Travel Nursing Benefits and Challenges 
                 By Ryan Bannan and Brandi Borden

2021

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Pave Your Way: Set the Building Blocks of Your Future
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • Peer Mentors Prove to be Strong Assets in Virtual Anatomy & Physiology Labs
​​​                By Catherine B. Kim-Safran, Alexandria C. Reid, and Makayla ​                M. Chatman​
  • Letters of Recommendation Written by Staff Nurses
    By Daniel M. Doolan
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae? You Need Both!
    By Diane J. Mancino​
  • The Discipline of Transcultural Nursing 
    By 
    Jennie A. Gunn
  • What Type of Nursing Do You Want to Do? 
    By 
    Theresa Noyes

2020

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Aim HIRE: Reaching for Success!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • Helpful Hints for Embarking on an Undergraduate Nursing Research Journey
    By Catherine West
  • How to Request a Strong Letter of Recommendation
    By Daniel M. Doolan
  • Taking a Fresh Look at LTPAC
    By Deborah White
  • Forensic Nursing for the New Graduate
    By Jennifer Pierce-Weeks
  • Heartstrings, Hugs and Healing: Reflections On Becoming a Pediatric Emergency Nurse
    ​By Rebecca A. Steinmann
  • Profile of a Board-Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse
    ​By Catherine Fitt

2019

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Ignite the Fire For Your Career!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • Financial Health for a Lifetime of Caring
    By Irene Trowell-Harris and Shirley Quarles
  • How to Protect Your License to Practice
    By Jennifer Flynn
  • Influence on Nursing Informatics: Fascinating Career Focus for New Nurses
    By Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo
  • Get Up to Speed on Transport Nursing
    By Allen C. Wolfe, Jr.
  • Maddison, You’re in Postpartum. Fifth Floor, Take a Left
    ​By Maddison D. Johnston

2018

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Connect the Dots for Your Career!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • One of the Best Kept Secrets in Nursing
    By Anne Hysong 
  • Specialty Certification Really Matters and a Life Could Depend on It
    By Janie Schumaker
  • Practice Beyond the Hospital: Nursing Specialty, Primary, and Ambulatory Care Education
    By Kirsten Garza, Elizabeth Seiber, Eva Chau,  Samantha
    ​Noblejas, and Sarah H. Kagan
  • Defining Medical-Surgical Nursing
    By Robin A. Hertel, Marisa Streelman, and Sharon Brown
  • Is an Online Educational Environment for You?
    By Robin Weaver
  • Why Join Another Professional Organization? Because You are Worth It
    By Cheryl Taylor, Rosemary Mortimer, and Kenya Williams
  • Five-Year Plan Rocked
    By Sonja M. Schwartzbach

2017

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Networking: Building Your Career From the Ground Up!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
  • Higher Education for Nurses — A Summary of Postgraduation Options
Special Features
  • Igniting the Passion for Leadership: Faculty and Student Perspectives
    By Keri Jarvis, Adam Tebben, & Nichole Pearson MSN, RN
  • Career Coaching 101 
    By Paul T. Skiem and Beth A. Brooks
  • The Importance of Sleep 
    By Christopher Longo
  • Risk Implications for Nurses in Today’s Social Sharing Environment 
    By David Griffith
  • Discomfort vs. Danger: Is the Complaint Worthy of Further Assessment
    By Alicia A. Stone and Laura Candelaria
  • Tips for the Transition form RN to NP
    By Donna Falsetti, Joyce Penrose and Jill Rodgers
  • Link Up With LinkedIn: The Power of Networking
    By Katelyn Finnegan

2016

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Personal Branding and Marketing: How to Influence Your Destiny!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Nursing Organizations
  • Realities of the Current Job Market
Special Features
  • Forensic Nursing: Where Justice and Medicine Meet
    By Tanya Davis, NSNA director
  • Identifying Diversity: Body Art and the Modern Nurse
    By Tanya Davis
  • Behind the Scenes of the NSNA Career Development Center: A Unique Resource for Members
    By Lois Marshall
  • Holistic Nursing: A Way of Being…A Way of Living…A Way of Practice!
    By Lucia Thornton
  • Nurture Moms and Babies, Change Lives, Consider a Career with Nurse-Family Partnership
    By Dianne Gerke

2015

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Careers in Nursing: The Possibilities RN'dless
Career Planning
  • Career Planning Guide
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Career Center List – Nursing Positions Available
  • Nursing Organizations
Special Features
  • A Career in Bioethics    
    By Cynda H. Rushton
  • Why Be a Gerontological Nurse?
    By Nanci McLeskey
  • Nursing Informatics: A New Career Opportunity For You
    By Robin R. Austin, Bonnie L. Westra, Dorcus Kunkel, Karen Monsen, and Connie White Delaney
  • Home Infusion: Nursing Care Beyond the Hospital Setting
    By Kathy Puglise
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae? Why You Need Both
    By Diane J. Mancino


2014

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Building the Foundation of Your Career
Career Planning
  • Career Planning Guide
  • Career Center Announcement
  • Nursing Specialties
  • Career Center List – Nursing Positions Available
  • Nursing Organizations 
Special Features
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae? Why You Need Both
  • By Diane J. Mancino
  • The Art and Science of the Interview
    By Lois S. Marshall
  • The Nurse Licensure Compact: What New Grads Need to Know
    By Jim Puente and Haley Streibich 
  • Finding a Nurse Practitioner Preceptor
    By Joan Masters
  • The Joy in Caring for “Grand Patients”
    By Melissa Palka
  • How Can You Bear NOT Working Here?
    By Sherrie Domberger 
  • Students Reflection on Undertaking Nursing Research
    By Thelesha Gray, Jessica Leandre, Valerie Miller, Kripa Patel and Katie Sanchez 
  • Become a Nurse Scientist, Help Chart the Future of Health Care
    By the National Institute of Nursing Research


2013

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Find Fulfillment and Happiness Through Your Career Plan!
Career Planning
  • Nursing Positions Available
  • Nursing Organizations List
  • More Career Planning Resources!
  • Practicing Outside the (Acute Care) Box
Special Features
  • Infusion Nursing: Experience, Expertise, and Exceptional Patient Care
    By Kathy Puglise
  • A Presentable and Unpresentable Experience in Cambodia
    By Sharon K. Favazza
  • Nurse Preceptors
    By Beth Ulrich
  • Global Nursing: An Unforgettable Experience Abroad
    By Katie A. Andrews with additional contributions by Julie A. Moss
  • Nursing Through Legislation
    By Nicole Marcy Bloom
  • Navy Nursing: An Interview with Navy Commander Tony BaldwinVoeks
    By Mark Calogero 
  • Just a School Nurse
    By Jenna Sanders

2012

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It's Not the Destiny, It's the Journey: Career Planning in the 21st Century
Career Planning
  • Nursing Positions Available
  • Nursing Organizations List
Special Features
  • Your First Job or Your Career?
    By Jan L. Keller-Unger
  • Touching Lives as a Nurse Home Visitor
    By Elly Yost 
  • Public Health Nursing: Promoting Health of Populations
    By Mary Hoke and Marianne Panzini-Rosenthal
  • Resume or Curriculum Vitae? What’s Best for Me?
    By Diane J. Mancino
  • Your Future in School Nursing
    By Laura T. Jannone
  • Navigating a Cooling Job Market for New RNs
    By Kelly Marinelli
  • A Closer Look at Mission Nursing, Perspectives of an Experience Abroad
    By Connie Herron and Jane Dunnhausen
  • A Closer Look at Nurse Educators
    ​By Susan Wheaton

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