First Online Writer Community for Nurses Launches
For Immediate Release
September 9, 2020 [ALBUQUERQUE, NM] – The first online writing community exclusively for nurses launches today. Called the RN2writer Success Society, the community provides a place where nurse writers of all experience levels can discuss issues related to freelance writing, entrepreneurship, health journalism, healthcare content marketing writing, and any other topic pertaining to professional writing as a career. Forum membership will be open to any licensed nurse at any experience level who is interested in pursuing a freelance writing career.
“The Success Society will provide a safe, supportive online space where nurses can discuss issues related to professional freelance writing and grow their careers through peer mentorship,” said Elizabeth Hanes, BSN, RN, the founder of RN2writer. “This online forum represents the next step toward achieving my vision of seeing nurse-created content accepted as the standard for excellence in healthcare communications. But to accomplish that, we need more nurse-writers.”
When Hanes established the RN2writer.com blog in 2014, it was the first nurse-founded online destination dedicated to helping nurses become professional writers. The blog went on hiatus in 2016 and re-launched in September 2019 as a full-blown teaching hub. Today, the site offers workshops for nurses to learn the basics of health journalism and group coaching to teach nurses how to establish a freelance writing business. Forums were the next natural extension of the brand, according to Hanes.
“Many online communities exist for different types of writers: journalists, copywriters, content marketers, mommy bloggers – to name just a few. But no forums exist for nurses who write. I wanted to change that,” Hanes said. “I’ve benefited greatly from the camaraderie and mentoring I’ve received in my career from other writers on various forums I’ve belonged to. I wanted to bring that same sense of community to nurse-writers.”
The forums will be available to subscribers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so that nurses anywhere around the world can participate.
“I’m already working with nurses as far away as Australia and Nigeria, and an online forum offers a way for nurses anywhere to ask questions and get support no matter their time zone or work schedule,” Hanes said.
The RN2writer Success Society will be available for a $99 per year membership fee. Students who graduate from the Ultimate Health Journalism Basics for Nurses workshop receive a free one-year subscription. Subscriptions go on sale September 9 at the RN2writer.com website.
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