Journal Guide

The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing: Continuing Competence for the Future is a monthly journal providing original, peer-reviewed articles on continuing nursing education. Directed toward all participants in continuing nursing education and staff development, the Journal provides features including teaching tips, administrative angles, and clinical updates as well as offers contact hours in each issue. The Journal also publishes the Annual Survey of State Boards of Nursing and Selected National Professional Certifying Boards/Associations, which provides our readers with the most current collected information about certification and licensure requirements for continuing education.

The Journal of Nursing Education provides a forum for peer-reviewed original articles and new ideas for nurse educators in various types and levels of nursing programs and enhances the teaching-learning process, promotes curriculum development, and stimulates creative innovation and research in nursing education. The Journal also provides features including educational innovations, research briefs, and syllabus selections. Subscribers can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

The Journal of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus is a bimonthly peer-reviewed publication for the pediatric ophthalmologist that publishes original articles on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of eye disorders in the pediatric age group and the treatment of strabismus in all age groups. Each issue includes an "Eye-to-Eye" roundtable discussion on current topics, the popular "What's Your Diagnosis?" column, and a quiz for CME credits. Subscribers can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

The Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services is a monthly, peer-reviewed magazine for mental health nurses in clinical, academic, and research positions in a variety of community and institutional settings. The Journal provides the most up-to-date, practical information available for today's psychosocial nurse including short contributions about psychopharmacology, mental health care of older adults, and child/adolescent disorders and issues. The Journal includes clinically relevant original articles, letters to the editor, news, and product updates. As an added benefit to the Journal, each monthly issue contains a Clip & Save: Drug Chart, a one-page resource of up-to-date information on current medications for psychiatric illnesses, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorders, depression, and schizophrenia. Continuing Nursing Education credit articles are available.

The Journal of Refractive Surgery, the official journal of the International Society of Refractive Surgery, a partner of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, is a monthly peer-reviewed forum for original research, review, and evaluation of refractive and lens-based surgical procedures. Practical, clinically valuable articles provide readers with the most up-to-date information regarding advances in the field of refractive surgery. Subscribers and members can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

Today's gerontological nurse needs the most practical, useful, and timely information available to achieve maximum success on the job. The Journal of Gerontological Nursing is a monthly peer-reviewed journal, publishing clinically relevant original articles on the practice of gerontological nursing across the continuum of care in a variety of health care settings. Sections include geropharmacology, clinical concepts, diagnosis: dementia, legal issues, public policy, research briefs, and technology innovations, as well as a Continuing Nursing Education quiz, available in a full-color magazine format. Subscribers can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health, published quarterly by the American Occupational Therapy Foundation, Inc., offers original research articles of professional interest to the practicing occupational therapist with a focus on occupation and fostering interdisciplinary research. The Journal also features research briefs and letters to the editor. Subscribers can also benefit from online advanced release of articles before they appear in print.

OSLI Retina focuses exclusively on retinal diseases, surgery and pharmacotherapy. OSLI Retina will offer an expedited submission to publication effort of peer-reviewed clinical science and case report articles. The front of the journal offers practical clinical and practice management features and columns specific to retina specialists. In sum, readers will find important peer-reviewed retina articles and the latest findings in techniques and science, as well as informative business and practice management features in one journal.

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The CDC has released a guide and checklist to help health care professionals prevent infections in outpatient settings, according to a press release. The guide came in response to a surge in patients being treated on an outpatient basis and offers information on endoscopy clinics, surgery centers, primary care offices and pain manag.

Psychiatric Annals is America's most widely read journal for continuing education in the field of psychiatry. Each monthly issue provides a thorough, multi-authored look at a single topic in psychiatry carefully chosen by an Editorial Board composed of the leading psychiatrists in the United States. Three credit hours in Category 1 for the Physician's Recognition Award of the AMA are offered for the successful completion of a CME quiz.