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 flexible learning contexts
- Issues and trends in nursing education
- Administration and leadership of nursing education programs
To ensure that only articles which 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 of interest to an international audience
- Be applicable beyond the local context
- Present ideas in a succinct, coherent manner with logical flow and conclusions
- Describe the relationship between the educational strategy or innovation and its theoretical foundation (if a description of a strategy or innovation)
- Report well-designed studies (if research), with the theory base evident in the design
- Report research studies that add to nursing education knowledge, and do not simply replicate, in a different setting, what is already known through a substantial body of evidence
- Present logical organization and reasonable critique of literature with conclusions appropriate for either a critical or integrative literature review (if a literature review)
- Include current references and accurate citations
- Conform to accepted usage of the English language
- Contribute meaningfully to the evidence or theory base of nursing education