Kathleen "Kitty" Buckwalter, RN, PhD, FAAN
Editor, Journal of Gerontological Nursing (since 1997)
Editor, Research in Gerontological Nursing (since 2008)
First year of Editorial career - 1997
First year in INANE - 2000
Other Position - Professor Emerita and Former Dierctor, Hartford Center of Geriatric Nursing Excellence, University of Iowa College of Nursing
Which editing accomplishment is the one about which you feel most proud?
Mentoring novice contributors
What is the best thing about being an Editor?
Setting new directions for the field and promoting evidence-based practice (JGN). Dissemination of high quality research in gerontological nursing (RGN)
What is the worst thing about being an Editor?
Responding to angry/upset colleagues because their article have either been rejected or are "in press" too long.
Share an amusing story about editing.
I had a detached retina several years ago with a scleral buckle repair. Maybe a week after the surgery, I as in a meeting in Singapore and had some problems post op, so I went to an eye clinic in a foreign hospital to get a check-up under the bandages. I had a ton of manuscripts that were overdue because of my eye problems, so I was in the waiting room of the eye clinic trying to finish up overdue editing and the staff was screaming at me to stop working ( in a mixture of Chinese, English, Indian and Malaysian languages) or I would go blind!
Which three words would your colleagues use to describe you?
Determined, hard working. loyal
What is the strangest request a potential author has ever made of you?
To serve on the review panel for a "rival" journal
How do you relax?
Work jigsaw, corssword and sudoku puzzles and play the violin
Additional note -
I will retire at the end of 2011. New editors will take over RGN and JGN come Jan 2012. I will also retire after 32 years as a faculty member at the University of Iowa College of Nursing.
