All submissions are preferred via e-mail at tnt@katsden.com
Email submissions will be easier to identify if you use the word "TNT submission" in the SUBJECT field.

For larger approved articles, readers may contact the Editor via e-mail and a "snail-mail" address will be provided. The editor has OCR scanning capabilites so that text can be converted to an electronic file format when needed. Pictures of special note can also be scanned and included with author's permission.

The submitted text, articles or pictures must be accompanied by a written request for submissions of the information in the TNT newsletter. Use of the e-mail subject field with "TNT submission" is acceptable.
It will be assumed that the name and email address of the submitter is to be included unless noted differently.

When using the Internet to submit, bear in mind that the Editor uses Netscape(tm) and Eudora(tm) to access files. Please attach files that are compatible to that format (including: text/ASCII, gif, jpeg, or html and others).

TNT is open to previously published and simultaneous submissions. You may want to mention you are using this approach as a matter of courtesy. Please be sure that your name, address and/or email address is on each submission.

SUGGESTED SUBMISSIONS

Submissions of interest to Telephone Nurses in all occupations and environments. Preferred material is from Registered Nurses, Physicians and other health care professionals currently involved in the speciality.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Stories from Telephone Nurses about their speciality -- why they chose it, what they like/don't like about it, current challenges, success and failures.

• Current Issues in Telephone Nursing -- from individuals or professional organizations. Share the latest "scoop" with TNT. Let us know what is going on in your part of the world.

• Quality issues -- such as how to handle JCAHO/NCQA surveys, techniques used in call centers to monitor and improve quality practice, parameters used to measure quality on a monthly or quarterly basis. What is considered a "best practice" approach to telephone nursing services?

• Outcomes -- what are we looking for in different health care environments? What can be measured using computer reporting software versus manual methods? What is being currently done or are we working toward in the future?

• Standards of Practice -- What ARE your standards, or do you have them at all in print? Let TNT know!

• Employment Line -- jobs wanted or jobs posted. TNT will share basic information about nurses who are looking for jobs around the U.S. and the world for all to see -- along with Call Centers desperate for the best triage nurses they can find. Relocation options and recruiter contact names should be included. See previous issues for size and examples.

• Conferences -- related specifically to Telephone Nursing. Organizing a seminar or conference at your call center? Just got a flyer about a great looking conference? Let TNT know!

• Amusing stories from the "front lines" -- while taking care to honor patient confidentialty. TNT will remove personalization or locality from your joke or story if not already done by the person submitting. Triage nurses have the greatest respect for their clients while admitting to some funny telephone conversations.

• Unusual or Novel Practice -- are you doing something completely different or creative in your practice? Tell TNT about it so we can share it with the world.

• Speak Out - editorials about practice issues. Those things you love or just bug you about telephone nursing.

PAYMENT

TNT regrets there is no payment for submitted material. However, if accepted, you will receive full byline credit for your submission. Anonymous submissions are acceptable under certain conditions. Discuss this with the Editor if you prefer to not have your name or email address publicized.

RIGHTS

For the honor of publication, you trade first serial print rights, permission for TNT to post your material at Internet locations and permission to refer to the material in subsequent volumes of TNT. All rights of possession are retained by YOU the author/artist. TNT merely asks permission to reproduce the material according to above possibilities. See also: TNT's reproduction policy below. You DO make a giant contribution to other Triage Nurses world-wide by sharing your thoughts or expertise and making Telephone Nursing Services the best it can be. Need I say more?

EDITORIAL APPROVAL

The Editor of TNT reserves the sole right to accept or reject all submissions without question. As a matter of professional courtesy, explanations will be provided when appropriate as to why material was not felt suitable for ezine publication. Commercial information will be highly scrutizined and will be published solely at the whim of the Editor. This is a professional nursing publication intended for the sharing of informaton about a nursing specialty.