title: Assessing your publication potential.
abstract: To be published in a professional nursing journal is an admirable goal and one that is obtainable if you have skills, knowledge, and tenacity and if you want to share information with others. Everything we do or accomplish in life is built on steps, and that translates into taking one step after another. Writing for publication is no different; this article enumerates and describes the 11 steps to becoming published. Self-answer questions direct the reader to consider whether to compose solo or with a co-author(s). The nursing journal review processes and options of where to submit queries or completed articles are covered. Books to help writers begin writing or refining their work are included. This article states that the first rule of becoming published is "where there's a will, there's a way." It concludes with the dictate, start now. Procrastination has stifled more projects than any other obstacle. Pick up your pen or turn on your computer and go to work.
authors.affiliation: LKeegan@aol.com
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Keegan
mesh_terms: D001319:Authorship; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D015399:Nursing Research; D011643:Publishing; D014956:Writing