MercyOne Iowa: EBP Guide

How do articles get peer reviewed? What role does peer review play in scholarly research and publication? This video will explain. This video is published under a Creative Commons 3.0 BY-NC-SA US license.

Nurse Author & Editor

Nurse Author & Editor is an international publication, dedicated to publishing high-quality, current, and informative articles on scholarly writing and publishing in the nursing literature. Founded in 1991 by Suzanne Hall Johnson, Nurse Author & Editor has been published continuously since its inception and celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015. The publication began as a print newsletter and transitioned to a quarterly, open access publication in 2006. Nurse Author & Editor is published by Wiley-Blackwell Ltd.

This series won the 2018 ASHPE gold award for best feature article series. These four articles take nurses step by step through the writing process: Writing Resources

Recommended Reading For Nurses       

Read these free articles selected twice a month by the Clinical Educator at Lippincott Nursing Center.  

The Mulford Health Sciences Library at the University of Toledo has an “Instructions to Authors in the Health Sciences” database that will direct you to the webpage that has that journal’s instructions for submission.

“These pages provide links to Web sites which provide instructions to authors for over 6,000 journals in the health and life sciences. All links are to "primary sources" - that is, to publishers and organizations with editorial responsibilities for the titles.”

SQUIRE Friendly Journals- Use this resource to browse a collection of journals that publish quality improvement projects.  

Nursing Commons is part of Digital Commons, a best-in-class hosted solution to openly publish, manage and showcase the full spectrum of your institution’s research and scholarship. Built for discovery, our cloud-hosted institutional repository software features a professional grade publishing platform for journals, conference proceedings, open educational resources, books, campus newsletters and magazines.

One strategy for enhancing and sustaining a culture of Evidence-Based Practice is to start a journal club.  

Dovi, G. (2015). Empowering change with traditional or virtual journal clubs. Nursing Management, 46(1), 46–50.

Lachance, C. (2014). Nursing Journal clubs: A literature review on the effective teaching strategy for continuing education and evidence-based practice. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 45(12), 559–565.

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