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Get published in HR Pulse magazine
Healthcare HR professionals want to read about your best practices and case examples. Your article could be published in an ASHHRA publication.
Submission Instructions
- Review the HR Pulse Content Guide below.
- Complete the online Call for Articles Application (or Download PDF Application)
- Upon approval of your article, ASHHRA will contact you with next steps for publication.
Article Submission Due Dates
Please submit your HR Pulse articles by the following deadlines.
Q1 - SPRING
- Technology: AI Enhanced Onboarding
- Workforce: AI in Job Descriptions
- Advocacy/Policy: Legislative agendas and impact to healthcare HR
- Leadership: Emotional Intelligence
- Business of Healthcare: Rural health
- Diversity: Story that celebrates Black History Month or Women’s History Month
Content Due to ASHHRA: Feb. 14, 2025
Publish Date: March 28, 2025
Q2 - SUMMER
- Technology: Data breaches
- Workforce: Career pathing
- Advocacy/Policy: Policy improvements
- Leadership: Impactful communication: understanding/supporting generational differences
- Business of Healthcare: Volunteering in healthcare
- Diversity: Highlight a successful diversity initiative
Content Due to ASHHRA: May 9, 2025
Publish Date: June 23, 2025
Q3 - FALL
- Technology: Using Predictive Analytics and Cognitive Load Balancing to Enhance Employee Retention and Well-Being
- Workforce: Credentialing/Certification
- Advocacy/Policy: Labor update
- Leadership: Leveraging appreciative inquiry for empowered leadership
- Business of Healthcare: HR’s role in emergency preparedness
- Diversity: Addressing biases and barriers in the workplace
Content Due to ASHHRA: Aug. 8, 2025
Publish Date: Sept. 22, 2025
Q4 - WINTER
- Technology: Alternatives to Surveys
- Workforce: Workforce trends – planning for 2025
- Advocacy/Policy: Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment and Laws
- Leadership: Coaching for Connection
- Business of Healthcare: Market disruptors to watch
- Diversity: Highlight a successful diversity initiative
Content Due to ASHHRA: Dec. 5, 2025
Publish Date: Dec. 17, 2025
HR Pulse Content Guide
Selecting a Topic
We are seeking articles in the following topic areas:
- Technology: Innovative software, social media strategies, Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
- Workforce: Recruitment, retention, turnover and engagement strategies.
- Advocacy/Policy: Laws that affect the healthcare human resources field.
- Leadership: Real life applications that motivate individuals and/or organizations to act towards achieving a common goal.
- Business of Healthcare: Trends to watch and business functions to aid the HR leader in areas of finance, marketing and project management.
- Diversity: Organizational solutions that advance DE&I in the healthcare field.
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Acceptance Criteria
- Completed and submitted via the online Call for Articles.
- Cover subject topic substantively and must have actual healthcare HR-related content which is new and/or best practices relevant to ASHHRA members as recommended in Selecting a Topic and the HR Leader Model Competencies (see above).
- Contain technically accurate information with sources cited at the end (no opinions).
- Include written permission of interviewees submitted to ASHHRA.
- Source quoted individuals at end of article (e.g., Last name, first name. Personal Interview. 27 April 2023).
- Your company name may appear only in the tagline at the end of the article where author contact information will be listed — you must have an author’s name on the article.
- Original articles submitted exclusively to ASHHRA must be emailed in a Microsoft Word document with author’s name on the article.
- Manuscript must be no more than 1,200 words in length.
- Authors must comply with all submission deadlines.
- Advertorials are not acceptable.
Selection Process
Articles which fall outside of the subject areas, ASHHRA mission and values, with obvious AP style errors or with no clear explanation of addressing a problem with solutions will be evaluated using the following criteria.
Criterion (Score 0 if element is absent) | Below Expectations (1) | Meets Expectations (2) | Exceeds Expectations (3) | Score |
Content is healthcare human resources specific | ||||
Use of evidence to support statistics (if applicable) | ||||
Original body of work | ||||
Content is timely and fills a topic void | ||||
Clearly written in AP Style and meets the specified subject area | ||||
Provides solutions | ||||
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Submissions rating a score of 10 or below are subject to exclusion.
Review Process
All stories undergo an ASHHRA review process based on the above mentioned criteria.
- There is no guarantee a submission will be published.
- All submitted manuscripts accepted for publication are subject to editing.
- All submitted manuscripts become the property of ASHHRA once published (per agreement form signed by author).
- All submissions should be written in the AP editorial style.