Volume 39 Number 1
Around the WCET® world
Elizabeth Ayello
For referencing World Council of Enterostomal Therapists®. WCET® Journal 2019; 39(1):7-8
Dreams Realised
While I may live in New York, a city that never sleeps, it does not mean that I don’t dream. Beginning with Norma Gill, her steadfast board of volunteers and the many pioneers who shaped the WCET®, our association is built on their dreams and hopes for an association that would change the world for patients with ostomy, wound and continence care needs.
One of their dreams was to create a journal that would be of benefit to WCET® members. Over the years the journal has grown and changed. The feedback that you provided the executive board was that you wanted the journal to be MEDLINE indexed. The executive board has implemented a plan to apply for MEDLINE indexing. Our publisher, Greg Paull, and journal editor, Jenny Prentice, are working diligently to achieve this. You will notice that this issue of the journal looks different from past journal issues as they implement necessary requirements for MEDLINE indexing.
Another WCET® dream is to better serve the needs of our members, for many of whom English is not their first language. While WCET® has increased educational resources such as our webinars in languages other than English, except for when authors have provided a manuscript in their own language, articles in the WCET® Journal are mainly in English. Those who have responded to the membership survey have clearly told the executive board of the dream of having the WCET® Journal in languages other than English, especially Chinese.
Not only is this important to the executive board, but the use of multiple languages is very special to me personally. This is because I live in New York City, where over 800 languages are spoken. And in the borough of Queens where I live, the most languages are spoken, and different cultural foods can be found, in an area called the “The World’s Borough”. Living in such a diverse place, I am used to hearing and seeing many languages all around me. One of my dreams, which is also shared by the executive board, therefore has been to increase the number of languages in which the WCET® Journal is published.
Vanna Bonta, writer and actress said “dreams are the food of human progress”. Let me share with you the progress that the WCET® has made to making that dream a reality. Drum roll please... the executive board is pleased to announce that beginning with this first issue of 2019, the WCET® Journal will be published in Chinese as well as in English.
Translation of a scholarly journal into another language is expensive. Through the financial support of several Chinese Journal Partners – Top Medical, Hollister, Calmoseptine and Welland – and also with the WCET® providing some funding, the cost to transform the English language journal into Chinese and build the necessary electronic platform has been realised. Even if you don’t read Chinese, I hope you will celebrate this progress and change.
The executive board is also looking at the costs and the process to have the journal available in even more languages. All this fits with the WCET® strategic plan to be a global association that is addressing the needs and different languages of our members. While financial constraints would make it impossible to do this for all languages that our members speak and read, look for more dreams realised in 2019 as we add other language versions of the WCET® Journal.
Regardless of what language the journal will be in, the content will be the same. The executive board is very excited about this and hope you are too. So, look for more news about this in upcoming issues of the journal.
Besides the otherwise obvious language change, we hope you will enjoy the redesign of the WCET® Journal and the WCET® BullETin, which is now the official magazine for WCET® members. Our publisher and his design team have done an amazing job — thank you, Greg, and all at Cambridge Media.
While we will keep dreaming of other ways to enhance the WCET®, be assured that the executive board’s strategic plan for association progress is firmly planted in the reality of action to continue to provide you with the best membership benefits possible.
Let us know what you think.
Sincerely
Elizabeth Ayello
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美梦成真
虽然我生活在纽约，一座不眠的城市，但这不意味着我没有梦。先从 Norma Gill、她始终不渝的志愿者委员会和塑造了WCET®的许多先驱者说起，我们这个协会建立在他们的梦想和希望之上，那就是建立一个能为造口、伤口和失禁护理方面有需求的患者改变世界的协会。
他们的一个梦想是出版一本杂志，以便造福于WCET®会员。在过去的数年里，本杂志已经成长和变化。您为执行委员会提供的反馈是，希望本杂志能够纳入MEDLINE索引。执行委员会已实施一项计划来申请纳入MEDLINE索引。我们的出版者Greg Paull和杂志编辑Jenny Prentice正在为实现这个目标努力工作。您会注意到，本期杂志与既往的数期有所不同，因为纳入了MEDLINE索引的必要要求。
WCET®的另一个梦想是更好地满足我们会员的需求，因为对于许多会员来说，英语并不是他们的母语。虽然WCET®已经增加了教育资源，例如以非英语的语言举行网络研讨会，除了作者以其母语提供文稿时之外，WCET®杂志发表的文章主要采用英文。许多会员在参加会员调查时明确向执行委员会表达了他们的梦想，那就是以非英语的语言出版WCET®杂志，尤其是中文。
这不仅对执行委员会非常重要，采用多种语言对我本人也有非常特殊的意义。这是因为我生活在纽约，在这里，人们讲800多种语言。在我生活的皇后镇，一个名副其实的“世界之镇”，人们所讲的语言种类最多，还可以找到来自不同文化的美食。生活在这样一个多元化城市，我已习惯于在身边听到和看到多种语言。因此，我和执行委员会共同拥有的一个梦想是以多种语言出版WCET®杂志。
作家和演员Vanna Bonta曾经说过，“梦想是人类进步的食粮。”请让我与您分享WCET®在实现这个梦想的过程中已经取得的进展。请敲起鼓吧…… 执行委员会很高兴地宣布，从2019年第1期开始，WCET®杂志将以中文和英文两种语言出版。
将学术期刊翻译成另外一种语言是非常昂贵的。凭借几个中文杂志合作伙伴（Top Medical、Hollister、Calmoseptine和Welland）提供的财政支持以及WCET®的一些资助，我们得以将英文杂志翻译成中文，并构建必要的电子平台。即使您读不懂中文，我也希望您与我一起庆祝这个进步和改变。
执行委员会还正在探讨将杂志翻译成更多语言的成本和流程。所有这些都符合WCET®战略计划，即成为一个满足会员需求、提供不同语言的全球性协会。虽然由于财政限制，无法将杂志翻译成我们会员使用的所有语言，但是我们期望着在2019年实现更多梦想，出版更多语言版本的WCET®杂志。
无论本杂志以何种语言出版，内容都相同。执行委员会对此感到非常兴奋，希望您也有同感。因此，敬请关注未来的数期杂志以了解更多相关新闻。
除了语言明显改变之外，我们希望大家喜欢重新设计的WCET®杂志和WCET® BullETin，后者现已成为WCET®会员的官方杂志。我们的出版者及其设计团队完成了一项非凡工作，感谢Greg和Cambridge Media的全体人员。
在我们继续心怀梦想以其他方式改善WCET®的同时，请大家放心，执行委员会为协会的进步而制定的战略计划正在坚定不移地落实之中，从而尽可能为大家提供最好的会员福利。
敬请大家与我们分享您的想法。
祝好
Elizabeth Ayello
Author(s)
Elizabeth A Ayello
PhD, RN, CWON, ETN, MAPWCA,FAAN
Email president@wcetn.org
