 Hi, I'm Dr. Trish Morton. I'm the Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. In 2014, I completed a three-year program as a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow. As part of the fellowship program, each fellow was asked to complete an individual project. My project was to create an online course in publishing that would be available to anyone in academia or in the service world. I'm really passionate about publishing and helping others to learn the publishing process. So I hope you'll find this online course of help and of value to you. I've done a lot of publishing in my career, so I feel like I have a lot of good tips to offer you. I've published three textbooks. One textbook I did two editions. The other textbook I completed five editions. I've also published over 50 journal articles and many book chapters. I've served on the editorial board of eight journals, and for seven years I served as the editor of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses Journal called AACN Clinical Issues. Currently, I'm the editor of the journal sponsored by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing called the Journal of Professional Nursing. The purpose of this course is to help the learner understand how to publish. First, we'll talk about how to overcome your fears and anxieties that you may have as you face the potential of publishing your idea or your manuscript in a professional journal. We'll talk about the publishing process, how it's done, all the steps of a publishing process. In the course, we'll talk about how to plan your manuscript and how to write your manuscript. And finally, we'll cover how to deal with comments from the reviewers and the editors. As you work through this course, it may be very helpful to you if you can find a mentor or an experienced author to work with. They'll be able to guide you through the process of writing, react to some of your work and give you comments and helpful tips. Another aspect of the course is a reflection's assignments. With some of the modules in the course, you'll be asked to work on your reflection assignments, writing down thoughts or ideas you have as you go through the writing and process of preparing your manuscript. Another aspect of the course is an activity log. In that activity log, you'll be doing some work associated with each module. And if you do step-by-step in your activity log, it will really help you tackle the writing process in a clear, concise, and step-wise fashion. The course is organized into modules. And if you go through each module in a slow and systematic way, completing both the reflection activities and the activity log, it will help you do a step-by-step process to be successful in preparing your manuscript. There are a series of modules, do one at a time in the sequence as suggested in the course. There's also an optional module that can teach you how to be a good reviewer for a manuscript if you ever decide or are asked to be a reviewer for a professional journal. I hope this additional extra module will be of assistance to you.