Aims & Scope
The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship publishes significant research and scholarship in the broad field of nursing education. The mandate of the journal is to present high quality papers to advance nursing education through research, description of innovative methods, or introduction of novel approaches about all aspects of nursing education in a timely manner. The specific aims of IJNES are to:
- Promote worldwide scholarship in nursing education
- Enhance and advance nursing education globally
- Provide a forum for the dissemination of international perspectives and scholarship in nursing education
Research, expository, and short exemplar articles as well as critical literature reviews about diploma, degree, post-graduate and continuing education are invited from colleagues around the world. Topics suitable for inclusion in the IJNES include:
- Student, faculty, curriculum, and program development and evaluation
- Theoretically-based teaching and learning strategies in classroom, clinical, and distance education
- Issues and trends in nursing education
- Administration of nursing education programs
To ensure only articles that contribute meaningfully to the scholarship of nursing education will be published, accepted submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Be relevant and important to the field of nursing education
- Be of interest to an international audience
- Contribute original, thought-provoking ideas, and sound argument
- Be applicable beyond the local context
- Present ideas in a succinct, coherent manner with logical flow and conclusions
- Describe the relationship between the strategy or innovation to its theoretical foundation
- Report well-designed studies (if research)
- Include current references and accurate citations