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Based on our commitment to the Nightingale Declaration for A Healthy World....
Story Submission Guidelines
for stories to be posted — with your byline --
​ on our 'Outreach' section 
We welcome submission of stories — by nurses and concerned citizens. — that demonstrate how UN SDG #3 ‘Good Health & Well-Being’ — plus other UN SDGs — are being achieved, locally, nationally and globally. We also welcome stories that promote the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Nursing students and other students from related disciplines — at all levels — are encouraged to submit!!!
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Here are the details:
• Develop a story text between 1000 and 1500 words.
• This can be a story or about yourself and your work, someone or something else.
• Have permission to share the story — if it is about someone else.
• Share your story to illustrate UN SDG # 3 and at least one additional SDG (See UN Global Goals).
• Write your narrative to interest a general audience — rather than specific to a nursing audience.
• For your outline, consider using a news format — answering these questions: Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? Write short paragraphs on each if you wish.
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• Include at least 2 high-resolution images — 3 or 4 would be better — to illustrate your story.
• Provide a brief caption text for each image, including a relevant photographer credit.
• If you’re telling a story already featured on the Internet, please include the related link(s).
• Also submit your own short narrative bio text (250-500 words) and submit your high-resolution headshot.
• Story Example Links (Note how the above Guidelines are featured within each example):
      This Is Our Work!
      With Afghan Refugees: One Remarkable Nursing Story
       Kicking Cholera Out!
      Serving Mothers & Children at Risk in Nicaragua & Central America
       Our Multi-Faceted ‘Child Support Project’
• Email the above texts and attach the images to Dr. Beck at devamarie@earthlink.net--using the Subject Line: NIGH Story Submission by _______ (your name).

• We will gladly consider your story and reply in follow-up.

If your story meets these Guidelines and passes our Editorial review — we will be back to you — collaborating to determine a posting schedule and create a finished posting. 

​Your name will be credited with the story’s byline.
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• Be prepared to share your story posting on your social media links — encouraging others to do the same.
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• If you have questions or ideas — please email Dr. Beck at devamarie@earthlink.net --
         using Subject Line: NIGH Story Questions & Ideas.

We appreciate your submission(s) and look forward to hearing from you!

With warmest regards,
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Deva-Marie Beck, PhD, RN, DTM
Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, FAAN, HWNC-BC
International Co-Directors
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health • NIGH World & NIGH USA
Image Credits: Top: Colored pencils: by Jess Bailey on Unsplash paired with the UN SDGs Wheel from un.org. 
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Middle: by Andrew Neel on Unsplash.  and  Lower: ​Sixteen Miles Out on Unsplash
Nightingale Initiative for Global Health •  2020 ©
  • Home
    • Our Commitments
    • Our Advocacy
    • Our Multi-Media Outreach
    • Our Stories
    • Our History
    • Our Nightingale Prayer
  • Featuring!
    • Why Nightingale?
    • UN.Declaration.on.the.Rights.of Indigenous.Peoples
    • Inclusion_Diversity_Equity_Justice
    • Remembering Stockholm 72
    • 2020 Initiatives >
      • 2020 Nurses Week
  • Declaration
    • English Declaration
    • Arabic Declaration
    • Chinese Declaration
    • French Declaration
    • Kiswahili Declaration
    • Korean Declaration
    • Portuguese Declaration
    • Russian Declaration
    • Spanish Declaration
    • Swedish Declaration
    • Turkish Declaration
  • Stories
    • Canada
    • Greece
    • India
    • Kenya
    • Malawi
    • Nicaragua
    • Nigeria
    • Sweden
    • Switzerland
    • Tanzania
    • Uganda
    • Ukraine
    • United States of America
    • Story Guidelines
  • UN Goals
    • 17 UN SDGs!
  • Outreach
  • News & Events
  • About Us
    • Our Vision, Mission & Values
    • Our Team
    • Featured Publications
    • NIGH's Integral Models
    • Contact