Re: Sell Your Nursing Knowledge
Interesting thread...I believe when you write about health issues, whether as a journalist or RN, you need to make sure your info is accurate and properly credited. Either way you give credit to the researcher or author where you are pulling the info from or basing your work. That is the appropriate thing for any scholar to do...give respect where respect is due.
As for where it goes, who uses it and for what purpose... you may have limited control. If the info (whether it is from an unknown internet provider or a reputable medical journal) is out there and someone wants to use it for their own shady purposes there is not much you can do to stop them. It is a good idea to know where you are submitting your work.
And remember that if you are signing your name and including your RN designation to an article that you wrote you are accountable for the info given just as you are accountable, as a practicing RN, for the info you provide to your patients.
So, I believe, if you are writing as a reputable journalist you give credit to your sources, and if you are writing as an RN you accept accountability for your actions and words. We cannot control others, we can only control ourselves.
People do not always hear what we say, but they do notice what we do.
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