Publisher's Note
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Dear Colleagues
With the publication of this double issue (volume 13/2–3: October 2002) we demonstrate Contemporary Nurse's commitment to keeping publication delays down. Volume 14/1 has been brought forward from February 2003 to December 2002 to provide more opportunity for authors to publisher quality articles in the 2002 calendar year. We remain committed to achieving median publication times of four months. On Professor Thomas Wong's recommendation, we welcome Professor Susie Kim from the College of Nursing Science, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul to the Editorial Board of Contemporary Nurse. We also congratulate Prof Kim Usher with her appointment to the role of Conference Editor for the journal.
This double issue demonstrates the emerging regional character of Contemporary Nurse. While retaining its ANZ identity with strong clinical contributions from ANZ authors, the composition of this issue reflects the activities of the Editorial Board members we have appointed over the past 18 months. Our first article through Dr Huaping Lui at Peking Union Medical College has passed the refereeing and review process.
Three articles have come to us through our Literature Reviews Editor in California, Professor Marshelle Thobaben at Humboldt State University, Arcata CA, including her first invited literature review: Menopausal Treatment Dilemma: A challenge for women and nurses by Pamela Buxton-Blake.
Our Editorials focus on the current crises in Nursing employment. Sydney-based management consultant and author, Alastair Rylatt (www.alastairrylatt.com), provides a stimulating and useful Editorial on Attracting and keeping talent: Nursing recruitment and retention. His article is introduced by a Guest Editorial on the Nursing shortage: A crisis for the next decade by Dorcas C. Fitzgerald from Youngstown State University OH.
Promotional activities for Contemporary Nurse at international conferences have resulted in several articles arriving from the United Kingdom, two of which have been accepted for publication in this issue. We are delighted that Contemporary Nurse is both providing a window into nursing research, teaching and practice in the Asia Pacific region, and a forum for authors who wish to contribute comparative perspectives to it.
Conference listing is free in the pages and on www.contemporarynurse.com website, with live linkages to Conference homepages. Be sure to encourage your colleagues to contact us for listing and space advertising rates at info@contemporarynurse.com. Contemporary Nurse also acts as a sponsor of selected events.
Professors Annette Street and Ruth Endacott from LaTrobe University, have edited together an impressive collection of Contemporary Nurse and invited articles for Contemporary Nurse's first book outline: Practice Wisdom for Contemporary Nurses. To ensure that it is appropriate for your 'capstone' final year and graduate courses, I shall be consulting with you broadly on the content of the outline for your courses over the following month. Practice Wisdom for Contemporary Nurses will be published in March 2003.
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