WHO'S WHO OF NURSING EDITORS
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Rose Mary Carroll-Johnson, MN, RNC Editor, Oncology Nursing Forum (1991) Prior Editor Position: Editor, Nursing Diagnosis (1989-1993), renamed International Journal of Nursing Terminologies and Classifications (Editor, 2000-2006) Years as Editor: Since 1981 Years in INANE: Since 1986 Other position: Clinical Research Nurse, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, CA Accomplishment: I am most proud of the work I have done in oncology—both the Oncology Nursing Forum and the text I co-edited "Psychosocial Nursing Care along the Cancer Continuum." Best: The creativeness and the challenge of working on a paper and coaxing it along to be the best it can be. In addition, I really enjoy providing a service to authors and ultimately readers. Worst: Watching with a great deal of dismay the erosion of writing skills over the years. Even the most educated among us cannot be relied upon to write a cohesive, tightly presented, understandable paper. Amusing: Years ago I was editor of a proceedings from a national meeting. The book was to contain full text of all the papers. The authors were given guidelines. One set of presenters were icons in the field. I received a two-part paper with 80 single-spaced pages. It had three types of references. I immediately called the President of the organization. I said that this paper exceeded my editing abilities. She asked me to do my best. The ordeal ended successfully. The final paper was 27 pages and the authors were extremely gracious. They wrote a letter thanking me for 'happy edits'. 3 words: Helpful, supportive, kind Strangest request: A long email with not one punctuation mark, not one capital letter. It contained multiple misspellings and was full of incomplete sentences. This is why old editors get cranky! If not editor?: Read for pleasure, quilt and knit, and write.Relax?: Quilting, knitting, attending quilt shows. |
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