Authors

  1. Mee, Cheryl L. RN, BC, MSN

Abstract

All nurses have the potential to be an author. Each nurse can make wonderful contributions to the body of nursing literature, whether you're a staff nurse, educator, manager, or even a student. Your perspective can help others gain insights into our profession. The biggest barrier to writing for a nursing journal is that nurses assume that authors easily come up with great ideas and write wonderful articles. That's not how it works! Investigation and preparation before writing play a large part in any successful author's work. This work is time-consuming, I admit, but if you do it, you'll be better prepared to write and you'll increase your chances of having your manuscript accepted by a journal. The information in this article will help you write for both formal and informal style journals.