Pruett with Wagah border guard in Pakistan

There are travel nurses, and then there are travel nurses. Judie Pruett, NPC, MSN, belongs in the latter group, although she is not, by conventional definition, a travel nurse. For the past decade, Pruett, a nurse practitioner, has been employed by the U.S. State Department to deliver primary care to U.S. government employees working at embassies abroad, and her job has taken her around the world, most recently to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. Before that, she spent three years in Pakistan.

I was first introduced to Pruett through a short article she wrote about her adventures. When I invited her, in June 2008, to write a blog for Reflections on Nursing Leadership, she responded, via e-mail, “Blog. I know not blogs. I guess that makes me frightfully out of touch, but I actually have no idea how they really work.” I responded that I was just getting into blogs myself and that we’d learn together.

A more recent e-mail I received from Pruett tells me that she’s getting into this blog thing: “This is going to be fun! It took me more than an hour to realize that ... Google was first translating the blog text from English to Czech, then back to English. This made for some weird sentences and my initial impression was, ‘Some editor Jim is!’ Now I get it.” I should explain that, as the editor of RNL, I do a slight edit of RNL blogs, for the purpose of achieving conformance to the magazine’s style.

I hope you’ll join me in following Judie Pruett’s blog, NP Worldview. Watch for her latest posting in the “Recommended reading” section of RNL’s home page. RNL

—James E. Mattson, editor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership