Mary Paquette, PhD, APRN, BC
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
Editor, Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, Since 2000
Prior Editor’s Position: Book editor for Williams and Wilkins, nursing division, 3 years
Years as Editor: Since 2000
Years in INANE: Since 2000
Other Position: Educational consultant for Los Angeles Health Care Work Force Development Program
Accomplishment: PPC published an article, "Lived Experience of Long Term Hospitalization of Four Women In Brazil". The manuscript was written by a nurse in Spanish, based on her dissertation; she neither spoke nor wrote English. To get it into a form which was publishable took the efforts of a translator and several editors. The article appeared in 41:2 2005 issue of PPC.
Best: I enjoy the interaction with intelligent, informed nurses worldwide, making it possible to get their research and ideas in print for the benefit and development of the profession of psychiatric/mental health nursing.
Worst: Informing authors that PPC will not publish their paper.
3 words: Intelligent, insightful, creative
Strangest request: An author sent me a research manuscript on the sexual habits of adults in Poland that read like a poll for a pornographic magazine. I wasn’t sure if it was a joke or real research. They were psychologists, not nurses.
If not editor?: I am an artist and would spend more time developing my art.
Relax?: Anything with the arts: art classes, reading art books, attending art galleries and museums, movies, concerts, theater.