My friend and colleague Ruth Davies has suggested that I contact you in the hope that you, together with colleagues, students and research assistants, may be interested in submitting a paper to a themed edition of the Journal of Nursing Management.

We are planning a themed issue on ‘adverse events’ for April 2011, which I shall be editing. Accordingly, I should like to invite you and your colleagues and students to submit a paper around this theme. A data paper would be ideal.

Further details:

The word limits are 1,000-5,000 words. I should need the first draft by July 2010, if possible, to allow for the editing and production processes.

All papers published in this journal bring out the relevance of the work to nurses and nursing management. The penultimate and final paragraphs of each article are, ‘Implications for practice’ and ‘Implications for nursing management’. Abstracts are structured rather differently from many journals:

Summary: All research, review and commentary articles must include a structured abstract of 200 words. This provides a simple way of ensuring adequate detail is provided about the contents of the study or article (what, when, why, how and so-what?).

For research articles please use the following headings in your structured abstract:

Aim(s) - what was the purpose of the study?

Background - why was this study important?

Method(s) - a brief description of the method(s) used, including size and nature of sample

Results - what were the main findings?

Conclusion(s) - what are the main conclusions and implications for practice?

Implications for Nursing Management - What are the implications for nurse managers and/or nursing management? And what does this add to current knowledge?

For review and commentary articles please use the following headings in your structured abstract:

• Aim(s) - what is the purpose of the article?
• Background - why is the article important at this time?
• Evaluation - what types of information were used and/or how were these analysed or evaluated?
• Key issue(s) - what were the most important issues to emerge from the analysis?
• Conclusion(s) - what are the main conclusions and implications for practice?

Implications for Nursing Management - What are the implications of the article for nurse managers and/or nursing management? And what does this article add to current knowledge?

Similar headings may be useful as section headings in the body of the text.

Please add up to 5 keywords after the abstract. I suggest one of these is ‘adverse events’ or ‘adverse effects’.

The Journal of Nursing Management is part of the Wiley-Blackwell portfolio and is indexed on Medline etc. More information is available on the website http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0966-0429 .

The theme will be refined when I know the nature of the contributions. Please contact me with further comments and suggestions.

Best wishes,

Sue