Marion E. Broome, PhD, RN, FAAN
Nursing Outlook
Editor, Nursing Outlook, since 1/03
Prior Editor’s Position: Journal of Child and Family Nursing, 1998-2001
Capsules and Comments in Pediatric Nursing, 1993-1996
Years as Editor: Since 2002
Years in INANE: Since 2003
Other Position: Distinguished Professor and Dean,Indiana University School of Nursing
Accomplishment: Special issues on health care policy topics of relevance to nursing
Best: Influencing thought about trends in the discipline
Worst: Writing cogent, stimulating editorials that are evidence-based
Amusing: So far—I don’t have any. Some days, I do find humor in what people ask for or think they can do, in spite of what reviewers say. I try not to take myself too seriously.
3 words: Direct communicator; encouraging and supportive; hard worker
Strangest request: To accept their manuscript as a given and publish it without a review.
If not editor?: Take up fishingRelax?: Reading, exercising (walking), shopping (not for groceries)