(NEWARK, N.J., June, 20, 2007) -- The award winning book, “Emerging Infectious Diseases: Trends and Issues,” co-edited by Felissa R. Lashley, Rutgers College of Nursing dean and professor, and Jerry D. Durham, chancellor and professor of nursing at Allen College, Waterloo, Iowa, has been published in a second edition that provides new and updated information on emerging, re-emerging and antibiotic-resistant infectious diseases that continue to increase at an alarming rate around the world.
Written for a wide range of health professionals, particularly nurses, this second edition, published by Springer Publishing Co., provides a comprehensive overview of these diseases, their epidemiology, clinical manifestations, prevention and treatment. Contributed by a multidisciplinary team of nurses, physicians, public health, and infectious disease specialists, the book includes material on the most recent and important new emerging infectious diseases.
Each chapter is illustrated with clinical case examples to demonstrate the pitfalls in differential diagnosis and explain proper management and treatment. The book includes appendices that provide critical reference information for each of the bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic diseases.
“This book provides readers the knowledge to better understand the factors contributing to the emergence and reemergence of infectious diseases and microbial resistance in a broad context,” said Lashley, who is also the interim director of the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases Preparedness at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. “We live in a global community in which the health of developed and developing nations is intertwined. In this worldwide community, infectious diseases can spread rapidly around the world, making international surveillance and control of emerging infections vital to world health.”
The first edition of this book won the Book of the Year award from the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), which was also a Choice awardee.
Lashley’s other books have also received AJN Book of the Year awards, including the first and second editions of her book, “Clinical Genetics in Nursing Practice,” “The Person with AIDS: Nursing Perspectives,” and “Women, Children and HIV/AIDS.” Her book, “Tuberculosis: A Sourcebook for Nursing Practice,” received a Book of the Year award from The Nurse Practitioner.
She has created a Web page for nurses to share biopreparedness and emerging infectious diseases information and initiated an annual interdisciplinary conference on emerging infectious diseases.
Lashley is certified as a PhD medical geneticist by the American Board of Medical Genetics, the first nurse to be so certified, and is a founding fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing where she co-chairs the expert panel on emerging infections.
Lashley received the 2000 Research Recognition Award for Outstanding Research from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care. In 2003 she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Illinois State University, and in 2005 she was initiated into their Hall of Fame. She has been selected as a Women of Excellence by the New Jersey Women in AIDS Network. In 1999, she received the Distinguished Nurse Research Award from the Illinois Nurses Association. She also received the SAGE award for mentoring nurse leaders in 2001 from the Illinois Leadership Institute.
EDITOR’S NOTE: A photo of Felissa R. Lashley, a West Orange, N.J. resident, is available at http://nursing.rutgers.edu/files/lashleyhi.jpg
From its headquarters at Rutgers Newark, Rutgers College of Nursing offers a broad range of academic programs on all three Rutgers campuses. The college offers a master’s program with unique practitioner specialties, a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree, and the first to offer a Ph.D. nursing degree in New Jersey.