Jacqueline Jones, RN, PhD, BN Grad Dip Nsg
Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Editor, Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, December 2004

Years as Editor: Since 2004

Years in INANE: Since 2005

Other Position: Nurse Researcher, The Prince Charles Hospital, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Accomplishment: Progressing the journal to evaluation for impact factor and streamlining the review process.

Best: Making a contribution to the development of ideas and the mentoring of nurses as authors.

Worst: The frustrations that are vented on you by authors regarding feedback or rejection. Chasing reviewer feedback can be an issue at times.

3 words: Strategic, assertive, supportiveStrangest request: Not really strange per se — whether I would be interested in publishing transsexual sexuality issues.

If not editor?: Write a fiction novel.

Relax?: Reading and meditation