Why You Should Hire a Nurse Writer for Your Next Project

As a content editor or director of content for your business, you need a clip about a health issue. You also need information you can trust, but your team does not have the wherewithal to produce the clip, nor do you have the staff expertise who can verify the validity of present internet content for accuracy. No one on your team is readily able to assess internet health content for its relevance to your target audience. You need at least one excellent writing clip full of content that will ideally turn your readers into customers.

A Nurse Writer is best suited to meet your needs because nurses are professionally trained to listen, assess, ask open- and closed-ended questions to determine the exact nature of what your health need is. Even when discussing a potential assignment, nurses use their professional skills by asking insightful questions about the content under discussion. Nurses as writers are especially qualified to identify knowledge, skill, or judgement gaps which when applied to a clip about health, produce a result that surpasses expectations. This ability ensures that nurse writers deliver accurate, concise details in the clip that usually exceed your need. Nurses are educationally trained to read and evaluate research sources to determine their validity and usefulness, so you will get the best, and most current information available in your needed clip.

Nurses are experts at restating complex medical information in simpler, meaningful ways that connect with the people who need explanations and rationales stated in everyday language. This is something that nurses do on a near-daily basis when patients or families need to understand the changes that are occurring in their health status. As members of the most trusted profession, nurses know that the public does not need:

• Health “fads” or myths
• Medical diagnoses that should be coming from a doctor
• Misleading health facts and misinformation
• Poorly substantiated health practices

On top of a nurse’s professional capacity as a caregiver, nurses are skilled at more than just providing care. There are professional skills present in Nurse Writers that are integral to excellent bedside care. Because nurses acquired these skills before becoming writers, it places nurse writers at an advantage over other types of writers. These 11 professional skills are not listed in order of importance:

On top of a nurse’s professional capacity as a caregiver, nurses are skilled at more than just providing care. There are professional skills present in Nurse Writers that are integral to excellent bedside care. Because nurses acquired these skills before becoming writers, it places nurse writers at an advantage over other types of writers. These 11 professional skills are not listed in order of importance: 

1. A broad-based perspective on health maintenance (keeps people healthy) 
2. Knowledge of what health resilience looks like for men, women, children, families, communities and even populations 
3. Techniques for helping others cope with life changes, loss, acute and chronic health issues 
4. Health teaching capacity and passion paired with specialized education and health knowledge 
5. Knowledge, skill and judgement to transform complex health information into manageable, everyday language 
6. Multiple professional experiences with human vulnerability 
7. Expertise to answer health questions, give health advice, and support collaborative brainstorming to find solutions to everyday health issues 
8. Ability to ensure health content is factual, supportive, and suitable for the readers 
9. Supports people to connect to the clinical information they need because of their strong sense of how to connect to various audiences 
10. Professional training as communicators, advocates and as professionals continuously engaged in health content  
11. Training to apply critical thinking to everyday problems to find reasoned, supportive, relevant solutions.

As a Nurse Writer, I collaborate with editors and publishers. I use my ability to reflect on both a topic and its target audience to connect the appropriate details from the perspectives of the reader and editor/publisher. I sensitize the public to the significance of health issues in a clear, easy to read, factual way that demonstrates my ability to deeply consider health issues and craft my writing to help readers better understand their own health story. 

As YOUR Nurse Writer, I am not intimidated about the process of passing on written information. I collaborate with you and your team to develop material that turns readers into customers using my unique background and specialized skill set as a nurse. I conduct high-quality interviews with health experts based on my experience and expertise working with an interdisciplinary healthcare team. While preparing your clip, I can determine the importance and accuracy of medical research and reports to create relevant & educational content to delve into current health issues. 

I look forward to hearing from you about your health writing needs.