Editorial

What Is New in Pain ManagementNursing?

Did you notice anything different in the December

issue? How about anything different in this issue?

With the help of Elsevier, our publishing company,

we have addressed the issue of long wait times be-

tween article acceptance and publication in the

Journal. The December issue featured 19 originalarticles, 21 online-only articles, 2 book reviews,

and an American Society for Pain Management

Nursing (ASPMN) position statement. For this issue

we were able to do the same. There are 348 pages

of articles in addition to the usual 52 pages allotted

to each issue.

What does this accomplish? Before the December

issue some authors were waiting up to 2 years to seetheir articles published, either online only or in print.

With the December issue we finally were able to print

those manuscripts accepted in late 2011. For this issue

we have fewer than six articles waiting since

December 2012 to appear in the Journal. They will

be the first selected for the June issue. That is an

incredible improvement! We should soon be able to

move into the rest of the list, which mostly includes ar-ticles accepted in 2013.

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Have you ever considered writing an article for

the Journal? Is there something new being introduced

where you work? The article could be about a drug, a

procedure, or a new piece of equipment. How was it

introduced? How is it working now? Is this a novel

approach? Or perhaps your facility has implementeda new assessment instrument. How was the instru-

ment chosen? How was it phased in? Did the process

go well? What could have been done differently?

One of the benefits of membership to ASPMN is

participation in the American Pain Society’s nurse listserv.

Responses are rapid and go on for days. It is easy to put

your name on the list. Go to list@amercianpainsociety.

org and add your email address. This listserv is managedbyASPMN. It is a greatway to seewhat otherpainmanage-

ment nurses are encountering or are curious about.

Joyce S. Willens, PhD, RN, BC

College of Nursing, Villanova University

Villanova, Pennsylvania

� 2014 by the American Society for Pain Management Nursing

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