Focus and Scope

Aim and Readership
Journal of Nursing Practice (JNP) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that publishes work relevant to nursing knowledge, practice, education, and management. Its intended readers include nurses, nurse educators, nursing researchers, students, and health professionals involved in nursing care. JNP welcomes manuscripts that present a clear contribution to nursing. Studies involving other health disciplines are within scope when they explain their specific relevance to nursing practice, education, or management.

Scope

  1. Medical and Surgical Nursing
    Nursing assessment, interventions, and outcomes for adults with medical or surgical conditions. Topics include perioperative care, symptom and pain management, chronic disease care, rehabilitation, patient safety, and continuity of care.
  2. Medical and Surgical Nursing
    Nursing assessment, interventions, and outcomes for adults with medical or surgical conditions. Topics include perioperative care, symptom and pain management, chronic disease care, rehabilitation, patient safety, and continuity of care.
  3. Emergency Nursing
    Nursing care for patients with urgent or life-threatening conditions. Topics include triage, trauma care, resuscitation, stabilization, disaster response, and coordination of emergency services.
  4. Maternity and Pediatric Nursing
    Nursing care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postnatal period, as well as care for newborns, children, and adolescents. Topics include maternal and child health, growth and development, breastfeeding support, pediatric illness, and family-centered care.
  5. Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing
    Nursing assessment, care, and support for people with mental health needs across the lifespan. Topics include therapeutic communication, mental health promotion, psychiatric nursing interventions, recovery, and community-based mental health care.
  6. Family and Community Nursing
    Nursing interventions involving families and communities in homes, schools, primary care, and other community settings. Topics include health promotion, disease prevention, family caregiving, community health needs, access to care, and care coordination.
  7. Geriatric Nursing
    Nursing care for older adults in hospital, home, community, and long-term care settings. Topics include functional ability, frailty, falls prevention, cognitive health, complex care needs, caregiver support, and quality of life.
  8. Nursing Education and Management
    The development of nursing competence and the organization of nursing services. Topics include teaching and learning, clinical education, professional development, nursing leadership, workforce issues, quality improvement, patient safety, and nursing service management.

Manuscripts Considered
JNP considers original research articles, review articles, and case reports that fall within its scope. Authors should make the nursing relevance of the research question, findings, and implications clear. Manuscripts focused solely on another profession or discipline, without a clear contribution to nursing, are outside the journal’s scope.
All submissions undergo an initial editorial assessment for scope, scholarly quality, and adherence to the journal’s submission and publication ethics policies. Manuscripts that pass this assessment are considered for peer review in accordance with JNP’s published Peer Review policy. Authors should consult the Author Guidelines and Publication Ethics policy before submitting.