The nurse as rhetorician. Writing the clinically based article for professional publication.

Effective communication skills are a critical component of quality nursing care. Nurses are modern-day rhetoricians who must rely on their powers of observation, interpretation, and persuasion as they provide care for patients and interact with family members and medical professionals. Clinicians have an obligation to use their rhetorical skills to communicate their knowledge to the wider medical community by publishing in nursing journals. Advice is provided to those intravenous nurse specialists who are interested in writing a clinically based article for a professional publication, such as the Journal of Intravenous Nursing.