What's with ...

Nurses General Nursing

Published

... all the rash or articles with named submitters? Is there some sort of new program where you have to publish under your own name or something? We have always heard from TPTB here that we must post anonymously, so something must be up.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.
... all the rash or articles with named submitters? Is there some sort of new WGU program where you have to publish under your own name or something? We have always heard from TPTB here that we must post anonymously, so something must be up.

I've wondered that as well. Especially since so many of the articles seem rather superficial.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Neurosurgery, Neurology.

What about nursing student writers? I'm very interested in nursing/health-related writing (I read kevinmd.com a lot, and feel like this could be the nursing equivalent where it reaches nursing and non-nursing audiences).

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.
What about nursing student writers? I'm very interested in nursing/health-related writing (I read kevinmd.com a lot, and feel like this could be the nursing equivalent where it reaches nursing and non-nursing audiences).

We are trying to reach nurses of all levels as well as those who are interested in nursing and are considering nursing as a career.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Oncology.

Where do I sign up to get paid to be on AN? ;) :cheeky:

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.
Where do I sign up to get paid to be on AN? ;) :cheeky:

We are Hiring! link found at bottom of every page.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Case mgmt., rehab, (CRRN), LTC & psych.
As far as those articles that I personally felt were valuable, resonated with me, etc, are those that address real world issues or questions that nurses and students have - particularly Commuter's articles I've found very helpful and informative.

Thank you, klone. I appreciate the fact that you've deemed any of my writings informative. However, be mindful that, since I post under a username instead of my real name, I can be far more blunt and critical of the nursing establishment than authors who are publicly named/pictured. I can be assured that my nurse managers wouldn't be happy with some of my writings if I posted my real name, picture, and place of employment.

I'm glad there is a low cost online option like WGU for those who want or need a BSN
Me, too. I am a current student who is only a few credits shy of earning the BSN degree, and while I probably will go elsewhere for the MSN, my experience with WGU has been nothing but positive. For me, a dream that had been deferred will now turn into a reality.

They count as 'low cost'eek.png
WGU is a low-cost option here in the US, especially compared to other online schools. Tuition is $3,250 per six-month term, which means I will be paying less than $6,000 for my BSN degree. I paid a lower prorated rate for my second term, which is why I'll pay less than $6,000.

I know of others who have paid in the $20,000 to $30,000 range in tuition for online BSN degree programs, so WGU is a lower cost option.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in Peds, Med-Surg, Disaster Nsg, Parish Nsg.
Thank you, klone. I appreciate the fact that you've deemed any of my writings informative. However, be mindful that, since I post under a username instead of my real name, I can be far more blunt and critical of the nursing establishment than authors who are publicly named/pictured. I can be assured that my nurse managers wouldn't be happy with some of my writings if I posted my real name, picture, and place of employment.

Exactly, Commuter!!

How many of our members would say the things they do without the protection of anonymity?

Yes, Commuter is a terrific writer. And she is also a wonderful person.....I can vouch for that since we have met in person.

Up Vote Up Vote ×

There are so many members here who write so well, so incisively, and so perceptively, and for free. Why pay someone else for a (so far) largely inferior product? Why not "pay" people here with, oh, free membership for good writing, even if it is anonymous? (I'm looking at you, Cheese Potato-- well, I would if I could see you. Where've you been? And so many others, from pre-nursing through and into old-bat-hood ...) Most of them don't feel the need to have some citation for a post on a nursing board (developed for entertainment value alone) on their CVs. I certainly wouldn't.

I agree with the posters above who note that much of the paid writing here seems superficial. Hell, I could dash of some of those things in my sleep. And one "author" (whose name I will not mention because I cannot remember it, and I wouldn't anyway) posted a piece that looked suspicious, so I ran through the plagiarism-detection software I use as an editor IRL. It came up 100% cut-and-pasted from online sources, not even an attempt to paraphrase, and most of those sources not credited. (Although the "author" did include the original citations included in the plagiarized material, (!!!), perhaps an attempt at looking like real work?) Bah. You can fool some of the people some of the time ...

I am hopefully assuming that since that article has been withdrawn (after I whined about it, and thank you for doing so) that AN will be making some attempt on quality control for the future.

I also appreciate that the "university"-that-shall-not-be-named has responded to criticism of their "research" methods for "capstones" from many AN members, and presumably staffers, with experience in higher education and actual research.

AN really does have a lot of talent here already. I don't see why you would feel it necessary to solicit and pay contributors for this sort of thing. Reward the good people who help so many folks here out of the goodness of their hearts and love of the profession, why dontcha?

Up Vote Up Vote ×
I know GrnTea is very disdainful of WGU, so everything s/he says about it, I read with that filter.

As a point of clarification, I held it in disdain precisely because it apparently made a decision to allow that sort of "research" to be approved by master's program faculty advisors in the first place and then allowed it to go on for so long. Now that it has seen the light (with help that ought not to have been necessary for an institution of higher learning), we'll see what happens over the longer haul.

I appreciate that some people feel they received a good education from them (though really, how would you know until you got out in the workforce to use it?). We'll see.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in OB.

I agree with GrnTea, I've found the articles by these new posters somewhat odd and generally poorly written. I feel like AN's heart is in the right place by wanting to increase the amount of articles and the number of writers here, but I also feel that you all could have turned to your own members with offers of free or discounted membership, as suggested above, and gotten higher-quality content.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

Nope, not just you. I rarely read the articles. You know, the complete opposite of what men say about "gentlemen's magazines" :)

I may be the only one, but I do not find the articles resonate with me, they seem more superficial gloss than a deep understanding of nursing.
Up Vote Up Vote ×
I may be the only one, but I do not find the articles resonate with me, they seem more superficial gloss than a deep understanding of nursing.

Possibly because most of them (not all, but most) don't have very much experience in nursing: 2,3,4 years for the majority. Check the bios.

The one that has been a nurse for the longest has not worked in nursing in any capacity (as far as I can tell from her LinkedIn profile) for a really long time; although she seems to have a very successful coaching and self-help business, her degrees are not in nursing. She probably has some useful things to say, but again, not necessarily about nursing.

Up Vote Up Vote ×
+ Add a Comment