About nursing students’ documents and publication standards

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It’s almost that point of 12 months when graduates (and a few highschool graduates too) prepare their final papers. This involves loads of blood, sweat and tears, which is comprehensible – in spite of everything, these key projects and the resulting reports often determine whether someone graduates. If done appropriately, some articles could also be value submitting for publication. Faculty may even encourage you to achieve this – congratulations.

Just a few years ago I wrote a blog post through which I suggested some things that perhaps faculty forget to say with their prompts. As I discussed within the post, we would like you to succeed:

“…we need nurses at all levels to write about their work, and too few of them do. And the responsibility for a nurse’s scientific work cannot rest solely with academics and researchers; physicians have first-hand knowledge of the processes and outcomes of care, so they must document their work. They need to inform the public about what they do to make the work of nurses more visible; they need to keep colleagues informed about what works and what doesn’t so that we can replicate successful quality improvement initiatives.”

Just a few things you will likely have to know to get published

So before you get too far into crafting your article, here’s this blog post together with other resources that will help make this time of 12 months easier:

) – Some basics if you desire to “transform” your work right into a publishable article.

Resou collection – this series guides nurses step-by-step through the writing and publishing process, highlighting style and magnificence fundamentals, what gets published and why, the way to submit articles and work with editors, and customary pitfalls to avoid.

(CE certification available) – Created by the Joanna Briggs Institute, a global organization supporting evidence-based practice in nursing, medicine and allied health fields, this series guides readers through the step-by-step means of conducting a scientific review.

– An editorial on the issues many editors see in QI reports. “The first step is to make sure your student’s project is well designed and executed – no amount of good writing can fix a fatally flawed project.”

– Some basic points on the way to start working on this text. “A person is not born a writer rather than a nurse. . . The best way to become a writer is to write.”

Another great resource: a free online journal with articles and links to writing and editing resources.