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This information is for authors intending to submit a story to MHPES. Authors are advised to ensure they read and understand the focus of the Magazine. Before submitting story, it is important to first register with the magazine. Register Link<\/a><\/p>\n Authors must only submit their own original stories, and authors will be expected to confirm that the work\/article is original and exclusive. All those who have contributed to the story should be acknowledged of the story. Authorship is attributed on the bases of:<\/p>\n (i) Title<\/span><\/p>\n The tiles should be specific, clear and concise. Abbreviations, vague and unambitious titles should be avoided<\/p>\n (ii) Conflict of interest<\/span><\/p>\n All financial, commercial and advantage relationships which may present as potential conflict of interest must be declared and disclosed. In the absence of such interest, authors will confirm a declaration of no conflict of interest. <\/p>\n All submitted stories will be reviewed before they are published. The review will be done in accordance with the Magazine\u2019s guidelines and expectations to ensure constructiveness, uphold ethical practices, and ensure integrity across the review and publication process.<\/p>\n Authors are required to check off their submission as per Magazine expectation. manuscript submitted may be returned to authors that do not follow the guidelines.<\/p>\n The question asked and answered under this section is when should an story be retracted and what are the implication for the author(s)?<\/p>\n Retraction if the process of alerting readers to an article that has serious erroneous content. There are two main forms of retraction. A) There is retraction with replacement. That is, an article that has serious errors but when corrected, the findings significantly change and the article with corrected errors is published as supplement to the retracted article. B) Retraction with removal tis involve removing part or the whole article from online publication, and a notice of reason for the retraction is given, (COPE, 2025). Notably, the purpose of retraction is to uphold integrity and amend misconception of the article and not to punish the authors.<\/p>\n Editors can retract an article if:<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.27.9″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”–et_global_body_font||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.5em” link_text_color=”gcid-9b16ad75-65d9-4994-815e-f0f261e604a8″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”40px” header_line_height=”1.1em” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” header_font_size_tablet=”32px” header_font_size_phone=”26px” header_font_size_last_edited=”on|tablet” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-9b16ad75-65d9-4994-815e-f0f261e604a8%22:%91%22link_text_color%22%93}”]<\/p>\n The manuscript or video submitted should:<\/p>\n Publications Frequency<\/strong><\/p>\n The Magazine is solely published online using a continuous publication model (CP) which allows the immediate publication of the stories as soon as it is approved and meets the expected criteria without waiting for the Magazine issue to be completed.<\/p>\n Review Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n All submitted stories will be reviewed before they are published. The review will be done in accordance with the Magazine\u2019s guidelines and expectations to ensure constructiveness, uphold ethical practices, and ensure integrity across the review and publication processes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n (iii) StoryLength<\/strong><\/p>\n The length of the manuscript should not be more than 2,000-2500words .<\/p>\n The video should be 15 minutes long<\/p>\n (iv) Conflict of interest<\/strong><\/p>\n All financial, commercial and advantage relationships which may present as potential conflict of interest must be declared and disclosed. In the absence of such interest, authors will confirm a declaration of no conflict of interest. Have a link that discusses this in detail (Conflict of statement link)<\/p>\n Submission Check List<\/strong><\/p>\n Authors are required to check off their submission as per Magazine expectation. manuscript submitted may be returned to authors that do not address the guidelines.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n RETRACTION POLICIES<\/strong><\/p>\n When is a storyretracted and what are the implication for the author(s)?<\/p>\n Retraction if the process of alerting readers to an article that has serious erroneous content. There are two main forms of retraction. A) There is retraction with replacement. That is, an article corrected errors is published as supplement to the retracted article. B) Retraction with removal tis involve removing part or the whole article from online publication, and a notice of reason for the retraction is given, (COPE, 2025). Notably, the purpose of retraction is to uphold integrity and amend misconception of the article and not to punish the authors.<\/p>\n Editors can retract an article if:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text disabled_on=”on|on|on” _builder_version=”4.27.8″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”–et_global_body_font||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.5em” link_text_color=”gcid-9b16ad75-65d9-4994-815e-f0f261e604a8″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_text_color=”#000000″ header_font_size=”40px” text_font_size_tablet=”16px” text_font_size_phone=”14px” text_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” disabled=”on” global_colors_info=”{%22gcid-9b16ad75-65d9-4994-815e-f0f261e604a8%22:%91%22link_text_color%22%93}”]<\/p>\n Welcome to the Magazine of Health Professionals (HPs) Experiences and Stories. The Magazine is dedicated to promoting their clients to in form the: what, how and why things are done. Professional stories are encased in people\u2019s experiences and equally too, people\u2019s experiences inform their stories. Therefore, we captivate the power of storytelling to promote the dissemination of the discoveries, innovations and processes undertaken by HPs. The Magazine aspires health care professional around the globe through superlative storytelling to promote the appreciation of the stories and to promote its telling. Experience is proselytised as \u201cthe best teacher\u201d and therefore, through the shared stories, people are not only informed but they are encouraged and learn from it. <\/p>\n Our mission is to provide a forum where healthcare professional share their stories. There is strength in sharing.<\/p>\n The Magazine accepts stories by HPs from researchers, academics, and clinicians who want to showcase how their experiences and stories has informed and improved their knowledges, skills and practices. We put emphasis on stories that have clearly stated objectives, empirical grounding and theoretical framework supported experiences. Stories of interest embrace cases studies, interviews and opinions, debates, discoveries and technology. <\/p>\n i)\tThe origins of problems or issues, what it the problem and why is this the problem. (That is the knowledge and understanding that underlie the problem)<\/p>\n ii)\t How is the issue addressed, what is being done: present, past and future? <\/p>\n iii)\tMethodological (what processes were used or followed – how were things done) <\/p>\n iv)\tDiscovery – Outcome, (results) what is new, what was learnt, improved or better understood?<\/p>\n v)\tApplication- Lessons learnt and the valued points of improvement <\/p>\n The Magazine is solely published online using a continuous publication model (CP) which allows the immediate publication of the stories as soon as it is approved and meets the expected criteria without waiting for the Magazine issue to be completed. However, stories will be grouped into three issues per year with the issues released in April, August and December. Stories submitted after the deadline for each issue will be carried forward for the coming issue. <\/p>\n All submitted stories will be reviewed before they are published. The review will be done in accordance with the Magazine\u2019s guidelines and expectations to ensure constructiveness, uphold ethical practices, and ensure integrity across the review and publication process.<\/p>\n Authors must only submit their own original stories, and authors will be expected to confirm that the work\/article is original and exclusive. All those who have contributed to the story should be acknowledged of the story. Authorship is attributed on the bases of:<\/p>\n The tiles should be specific, clear and concise. abbreviation should be avoided. Vague and unambitious titles should be avoided <\/p>\n The story profile provides a descriptive overview of the story and its significance. The IBJCOL process which includes introduction, background to the story, the journey, (that is what took place or what happened), the challenges,outcome and lessons learnt. The story should not be more than 250 words. <\/p>\n The length of the manuscript should not be more than 2,000-25,000words The manuscript excludes the abstract, funding statements acknowledgement and bibliography references.<\/p>\nAuthor Guidelines<\/h3>\n
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