Journal of Nursing Education and Practice
International Peer-reviewed and Open Access Journal for the Nursing Specialists

The content of JNEP Vol. 2, No. 3 is:

• The discharge of individuals from hospital: Do we need to refocus our research?
• Feelings and expectations of permanent colostomy patients
• Use of virtual simulations for improving knowledge transfer among baccalaureate nursing students
• Development and psychometric testing of the nursing student satisfaction scale for the associate nursing programs
• The perceptions of nurses in their management of patients experiencing anxiety
• Using Boyer to create a culture of scholarship: Outcomes from a faculty development program
• Psychometric and maternal sociodemographic assessment of the breastfeeding self-efficacy scale - short form in a brazilian sample
• The satisfaction with simulation experience scale (SSES): A Validation Study
• A Triangulation study: Bahraini nursing students' perceptions of nursing as a career
• Humming as a means of communicating during mealtime situations: A single case study involving a woman with severe dementia and her caregiver
• Risks for non-communicable chronic diseases: A cross-sectional study with undergraduate nursing students
• Quality assurance and quality enhancement of the nursing curriculum – happy marriage or recipe for divorce?
• The structure of the “lived-experience”: analysis of reports from women with systemic lupus erythematosus
• Correlations between stress and anxiety levels in nursing students
• Motivations driving spiritual engagement based on a phenomenological study of spirituality amongst palliative care clients and caregivers
• Workplace violence towards nurses: A reality from the Pakistani context
• How can we help minority nursing students?
• Computer-based nursing education: An integrative review of empirical studies
• A systematic review of nurses’ knowledge of genetics
• Counseling chronically ill adults in the healthcare setting: An integrative literature review

To provide a rapid turn-around time regarding reviewing, publishing and to disseminate the articles freely for research, teaching and reference purposes we are releasing the special issues.

We would like to invite you to contribute manuscripts for publication in the Special Issue of Innovations in Nursing Education.

Benefits of the special issue for contributors/authors: Your manuscript will be open access in full text. The publication fee for these special issue open access articles will be $ 200 only.

The content of JNEP Vol. 2, No. 1 is:

• Dutch nursing students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards older people - A longitudinal cohort study
• Caring at the end of life: Iranian nurses’ view and experiences
• Undergraduate nursing textbook coverage of menopause
• Evaluating the utility of the FamCHAT ethnocultural nursing assessment tool at a Canadian tertiary care hospital: A pilot study with recommendations for hospital management
• Public home care professionals’ experiences of being involved in food distribution to home-living elderly people in Sweden - a qualitative study with an action research approach
• Patients’ satisfaction with mental health nursing interventions in the management of anxiety: Results of a questionnaire study
• Nursing students’ experiences of exposure to pandemic influenza A (H1N1)
• Factors influencing the adoption of evidence-based principles in nursing education: A Jordanian perspective
• Conversion from active surveillance to active treatment for prostate cancer: A qualitative analysis
• Nudging and obesity: How to get rid of paternalism?
• Is endocervical curettage necessary? A literature review
• A qualitative national study of nurses’ clinical knowledge development of pain in pediatric intensive care
• Clinical Leadership and Innovation
• A case study argument for nursing involvement in medical homes
• Understanding medication adherence via lived experience: An experiential learning exercise for nursing students
• Efficacy of progression testing in predicting nursing student academic success
• Researching student perspectives on interprofessional online learning via asynchronous text-based conferencing in healthcare education: a literature review
• The effectiveness of motivational interviewing as a form of care for adults with type 2 diabetes: A descriptive review
• Mitochondrial health – essential information for nurses

The content of JNEP Vol. 2, No. 1 is:

• Nursing students’ attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics: A study of a brazilian sample
• Performance standards for teachers supporting nursing students’ reflection skills development
• Challenges facing nursing education in Australia: Two solutions
• Registered nurses’ perceptions of the discharge planning process for adult patients in an acute hospital
• Assessments of safe medication administration in nursing education
• ABC’s: A Reality Based Pedagogy for Clinical Nursing Evaluation
• Personal- and environmental hygiene in Norwegian nursing homes
• Minimum Data Set-Home Care- as an additional tool in the admission procedure for a nursing home
• The effect of counseling provided on the second post partum day through home visits on breastfeeding success in turkey: randomized, controlled trial
• Nursing education curriculum for improving patient safety

The publication fee for each published article in JNEP is $200, effective from January 1, 2012.

We are in the process of calling for papers for the Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, and we will publish your work online if your paper is accepted.