Editor's Note

Dear Professionals,

Greeting from RGUHS Journal of Nursing Sciences. I take immense pleasure in presenting Vol-1, Issue-1 of RJNS, April 2021. The RGUHS editorial board extends its gratitude to all the authors who have contributed articles for this issue. Nurses work 24 x 7 hours with patients and community, experiences creative and critical valuable information that needs to share. We encourage the nursing fraternity to contribute scientific and research papers to this journal and thus empower knowledge on nursing profession. The editorial of this issue focuses on upholding clinical competency in nursing.

Getting an article published in nursing journal may seems daunting to novice writers, but the rewards for outweigh the challenges. RN editors and authors offer these pointers to help aspiring authors convert good ideas into published work. Writing a clinical article is an important way of getting your message to frontline healthcare staff that is expected to implement evidence-based practice. Frontline healthcare staff is looking for many ways to improve their practice and if this can be found in well-written articles which explained clearly this is likely to have a positive impact on healthcare. In addition, research funders are also looking at the outputs from research that demonstrates is an impact on improving health, care such as policy changes. Therefore, taking into consideration the frontline users of research.

It is important to discuss on publication strategy at the very beginning of research work for a master degree dissertation or doctoral thesis. Supervisor(s) will play a major role in helping to develop ideas, carry out the work, and write up the thesis. Therefore, it is appropriate that issues such as co-authorship have been discussed and agreed. Journals are likely to have policy on who can be included as an author and who should be acknowledged as making a contribution, but not as an author. When supervisor(s) has participated in writing an article, then it is probably most appropriate that the first named author, followed by the name of the supervisor(s) in the order agreed. It is conventional that the first named author is recognized as doing the major part of the work, and the others are seen as making a lesser contribution. Authors should adhere to journal rules about authorship convention rather than those of individual universities. Empower nursing by contributing and publishing their thoughts, experience, innovative and creative research.