Writing for publication. Part 5: putting pen to paper

Over the years, I have run a number of study days and individual sessions aimed at helping nurses to write for publication. The nurses that attend are either clinically based nurses who have a vague notion that they want to publish an article in a professional journal, or nurses that work in universities or research centres and for them publishing academic work is part of their job description. Whatever their background and motivation, these nurses have two common problems: the first is getting started and the second is keeping focused.

If you have been following this series in Dental Nursing on writing for publication then you will have developed some confidence in your ability to write an article and hopefully you will already have some ideas regarding the topic you want to write about.