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Applied Nursing Research August 1990
Vol. 3, No. 3
EDITORIAL
Your E d i t o r Is Your F r i e n d E HEAR frequently from our authors and our potential authors. We have received many substantive recommendations regarding new features for Applied Nursing Research. Also, we receive what appears to be a record number of query letters regarding potential manuscripts. Please keep the mail flowing! It is professionally gratifying to know that this journal has met a need and found a niche. We want to continue to encourage you to write for publication and to conduct and publish research that serves our journal mission: bridging the gap between research and clinical practice. Through your formal communications and your publications in this journal, you can share new clinical perspectives and experiences, advance the professional image of nursing, and influence others to change their professional practice. All of this, and your can see your name in print (and, perhaps, eventually in lights) too. The future of our profession depends on our individual and collective publications. We also get some angry phone calls. We do have a different review process, and it takes time. We think it is critical to the future of ANR and the profession that we continue with clinician/researcher review teams. Each manuscript is reviewed by two or three two-person (a clinician and
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a researcher) teams. Obviously, because all of our reviewers are experts in their areas, they also are very busy people. We try to respond to all authors in a timely fashion. Sometimes, the system does not work and we find the reviews are outstanding. We do not mind your phone calls inquiring about the status of your manuscript, but please know that we are committed to maintaining the refereed review process. At times, manuscripts must be sent oiat for a second round of reviews. Every detail of the review process is designed to help you publish a better article. As editors, we are dependent on our authors and our readers (future authors) to be successful at what we do. We continue to need your input, advice, and counsel. We cannot function if we become out of contact with the "real world" of nursing and, therefore, we appreciate your reality contact. We want you to be in a hurry to read the latest issue of ANR. If we hear reports that advance copies are being secured under lock and key to keep them from being stolen, we will be ecstatic. Do let us know how we can respond better to your publishing and practice needs. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Editor
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Vol. 3, No. 3
EDITORIAL
Your E d i t o r Is Your F r i e n d E HEAR frequently from our authors and our potential authors. We have received many substantive recommendations regarding new features for Applied Nursing Research. Also, we receive what appears to be a record number of query letters regarding potential manuscripts. Please keep the mail flowing! It is professionally gratifying to know that this journal has met a need and found a niche. We want to continue to encourage you to write for publication and to conduct and publish research that serves our journal mission: bridging the gap between research and clinical practice. Through your formal communications and your publications in this journal, you can share new clinical perspectives and experiences, advance the professional image of nursing, and influence others to change their professional practice. All of this, and your can see your name in print (and, perhaps, eventually in lights) too. The future of our profession depends on our individual and collective publications. We also get some angry phone calls. We do have a different review process, and it takes time. We think it is critical to the future of ANR and the profession that we continue with clinician/researcher review teams. Each manuscript is reviewed by two or three two-person (a clinician and
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a researcher) teams. Obviously, because all of our reviewers are experts in their areas, they also are very busy people. We try to respond to all authors in a timely fashion. Sometimes, the system does not work and we find the reviews are outstanding. We do not mind your phone calls inquiring about the status of your manuscript, but please know that we are committed to maintaining the refereed review process. At times, manuscripts must be sent oiat for a second round of reviews. Every detail of the review process is designed to help you publish a better article. As editors, we are dependent on our authors and our readers (future authors) to be successful at what we do. We continue to need your input, advice, and counsel. We cannot function if we become out of contact with the "real world" of nursing and, therefore, we appreciate your reality contact. We want you to be in a hurry to read the latest issue of ANR. If we hear reports that advance copies are being secured under lock and key to keep them from being stolen, we will be ecstatic. Do let us know how we can respond better to your publishing and practice needs. Joyce J. Fitzpatrick
Editor
89