Jean Proehl, RN, MN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN
Editor, Advanced Emergency Nursing Journal
Inaugural issue: September 2006
First year of Editorial career - 1989
First year in INANE - 2006
Editor position prior to your current editorial position - Since 1989
Other Position - Emergency Clinical Nurse Specialist & Consultant, Proehl PRN, LLC, Jan 2011- present
Which editing accomplishment is the one about which you feel most proud?
Emergency Nursing Procedures (Elsevier Saunders), 4th Ed. published in 2009
What is the best thing about being an Editor?
Helping share information and create valuable resources for practicing nurses.
What is the worst thing about being an Editor?
Authors who don’t follow the author instructions, don't turn their assignments in on time and then don’t return emails and phone calls!
Share an amusing story about editing.
When the first edition of my book was almost ready for publication, a marketing person contacted me to approve copy for some promotional materials. She had written that it was a "seminal" reference for emergency nurses. Although I appreciated the compliment, I had to point out to her that ED nurses would only think of one body fluid when they saw the word "seminal". When I defined seminal fluid for her, she was mortified.
Which three words would your colleagues use to describe you?
Organized, detail-oriented
What is the strangest request a potential author has ever made of you?
A nurse who I had met once (briefly) and who had published very little, e-mailed me and *volunteered* to be a co-editor for the next edition of my book.
How do you relax?
Knitting, reading non-nursing books, yoga, beading, and spending time with friends and family