Lisa Hathaway, MSN, RN
Clinical Editor Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins of several Nursing Journals: Nursing Made Incredibly Easy, LPN2009, Men in Nursing, Nursing Management, Career Directory, Staff Development Update and some online publications.
Start date: October 20, 2003
Editor: Since October 20, 2003
Years in INANE: Since July 20, 2009
Other Position: Adjunct Faculty, Desales University. Since June, 2009
Which editing accomplishment is the one about which you feel most proud?
Winning the "Innovation Award" at LWW for Nursing made Incredibly Easy 2003
Winning an ASHPE award for Best New Publication LPN2005
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy wins an ASHPE category every year
Becoming published myself with "How to”, "Patient Education", and "Editorial" articles on issues in Nursing.
What is the best thing about being an editor?
Writing editorials on issues in nursing practice and receiving feedback from subscribers meets my personal mission as to why I do this. Meeting subscribers at conferences and learning their opinions of the journals I work on gives me great satisfaction to go back to the office and fulfill the journal mission.
Having access to the latest advances in Nursing/Medical practice-guidelines, evidence-based information to pass on to readers. I'm always learning.
What is the worst thing about being an editor?
Corporate reorganizing and outsourcing
Tell an amusing story about editing.
When I came to LWW almost six years ago, I knew Nursing language-NPO, stat etc. but I didn't know publishing language and I would be in meetings where the "TOC" or the "map" or "runlist" were being discussed and have no idea?? And the first "deadline" I encountered I thought "ok" kind of like a "code blue" or emergency" in publishing only without the flatline!
Which three words would your colleagues use to describe you?
Organized, Creative, Positive
What is the strangest request a potential author has ever made of you?
A visiting editor-in-chief of another journal asked to use my office to get some work done-while I was still in it!
What would you like to do if you were not an editor?
Teach nursing students. Somehow, advocate for the profession of Nursing-by speaking or writing.
How do you relax?
Spend time with my family, travel, read, beach, golf, music, nature…