Top ten tips for good record keeping

Record keeping: developing good practice

THE LAST decade has seen a shift of attitude within the nursing profession towards the importance of record keeping. This change has been brought about predominantly by the promotion of patients’ rights and the empowerment of patients and relatives to be involved in their care, through the Patient’s Charter (DoH 1991). This has now been superseded by Patient Focus and Public Involvement (Scotti...

Writing scientific articles like a native English speaker: top ten tips for Portuguese speakers

Can you identify a single colleague who has not had a manuscript returned with the comment ‘‘needs to be reviewed by a native English speaker’’? Many researchers receive this response even after translation or revision by an official translator or a native English-speaking coauthor. Over the past four years, while conducting my doctoral, and now my postdoctoral, work here in Brazil, I have been...

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Ten Tips for Maintaining Digital Image Quality

The development of digital collections has benefited from both the technology and price-volume advantages of the wider digital imaging markets. With the advent of web-based delivery, standard file formats, and metadata, however, have come a host of technology related choices and concerns about variability and compatibility. We suggest ten simple principles that can be used to increase utility a...

Ten Tips for Authors of Scientific Articles

Writing a good quality scientific article takes experience and skill. I propose 'Ten Tips' that may help to improve the quality of manuscripts for scholarly journals. It is advisable to draft first version of manuscript and revise it repeatedly for consistency and accuracy of the writing. During the drafting and revising the following tips can be considered: 1) focus on design to have proper co...