In 1961, I completed a graduate program in public health nursing at the University of California and researched and wrote a thesis that was my first publishing effort. Additional articles were published in refereed journals in 1968. In 1969 I completed a second masters degree and doctoral degree at Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health and completed a second thesis as part of this program. Publication of this thesis Factors Predictive of Adolescent Behavior was followed by articles in the Journal of School Health, Pediatric News, Public Health Reports, Research Related to Children, and the Proceedings of the American Nurses Association Research Conference. My first book was published in 1975.
In 1979, I developed a theory for nursing in the community that was published in two issues of the Canadian Journal of Public Health. The theory was used in several additional publications and in 1995 it was applied to alternative health and published as a Theory of Alternative Health in Alternative Health Practitioner. Over the next few years, I wrote extensively for Alternative Health Practitioner including an article titled Alternative Treatment for Lung Cancer and Irregular Heart Beat: Two Case Studies with Dr. Charles Thomas Cayce in 1997, and the Mind-Body Connection in the Encyclopedia of Alternative Health Practice in 1999.
In 1998, I published Advanced Practice Nursing in the Community with Sage Publishing Co. and in 1999, Homelessness in the United States, Europe, and Russia with Greenwood Publishing Co. (Wilfred Kunstmann, Co Author).
Selected other articles and book chapters I published included Hysteria in a School Setting, Efficacy of Primary Care in a Nursing Center, Nursing the Homeless-A Vulnerable Population, Homecare in the United States (in German); and The Homeless, Health Promotion, and Nursing Centers.
I have published 6 books, and over 110 articles and research papers. One book Community Health Nursing: Theory and Process was identified by the American J of Nursing (June, 1985) as one of the books used by the top schools in the United States. As a result I was selected nationally by the American J of Nursing to select recipients for the American J of Nursing Book of the Year Award in Community Health Nursing. My 7th book Healthy Holistic Aging: A Blueprint for Success will be published in February, 2007 and I am working on my 8th Healthy Holistic Aging: Overcoming Roadblocks. These two books are my first attempts to write for the public.