Aims and Scope

1. Nursing Practice, Caring, and Professional Competencies

• Development of professional nursing competencies, including clinical, ethical, communicative, and decision-making skills across all levels of care
• Contemporary nursing procedures, protocols, and innovations in patient care
• Ensuring quality and safety in nursing care through the development, evaluation, and implementation of nursing care standards and clinical guidelines
• Best practices in caring-based nursing interventions, emphasizing the centrality of caring in achieving patient outcomes
• Integration of clinical reasoning and decision-making in complex care situations
• Translation of evidence into practice and real-world innovation in nursing care delivery
• Research on clinical nursing practice, care models, and patient outcomes across all levels of healthcare, with focus on nurses’ direct care and interaction with patients.
  
  

2. Nursing Education

• Nursing education across academic, clinical, and community-based practice settings, including mentorship, preceptorship, and evidence-informed teaching strategies that support learning in diverse real-world environments. 
• Education on nurse–patient relationships, therapeutic communication, and the humanistic foundations of caring
• Workplace learning and professional development within clinical environments
• Promoting quality and patient safety in clinical education and their impact on care outcomes
• Competency-based assessments and innovative pedagogical approaches
• Curriculum development, reform, and innovation across nursing education levels
• Creative and technology-enhanced learning, including simulation, e-learning, and virtual environments
• Research on nursing education and evidence-based practice implementation by nursing and allied health educators
• Partnerships between education and practice, interprofessional collaboration, and team-based training in healthcare.
  
  

3. Theoretical and Ethical Foundations

• Educational theories, philosophies, and pedagogical approaches relevant to nursing
• Application of nursing theories in both practice and education
• Ethical principles guiding nursing education, clinical care, and decision-making
• Exploration of caring as a core moral and relational component of nursing
• Professional values, accountability, and reflective practice in nursing
• Policy development, evaluation, and assessment related to nursing education and practice outcomes
• Theoretical models that inform holistic, person-centered, and evidence-informed care
  
  

4. Nursing Leadership, Policy, and Health Systems

• Leadership roles of nurses across clinical practice, education, research, and health policy
• Strategic planning, management, and governance within nursing and interdisciplinary healthcare teams
• Workforce development, staffing models, and sustainability of nursing services
• Health systems research and nursing’s role in policy formulation, implementation, and evaluation
• Quality improvement, patient safety, and system-level innovation in care delivery
• Organizational change, implementation science, and evidence translation into practice across diverse healthcare settings

Additionally, Nursing Evidence and Care (NEC) encourages submissions that address contemporary global challenges and innovations in nursing education, clinical practice, and ethics. Key topics include curriculum reform, creative teaching strategies, technology integration, policy development, ethical and humanistic approaches, and the influence of clinical environments on student learning and professional identity. The journal values diverse perspectives that deepen the understanding of caring, culture, and competence within the evolving global nursing landscape.

Types of Manuscripts:

Manuscripts presenting prominent contributions to clinical nursing practice, nursing education, or theoretical and ethical foundations, emphasizing novel insights and significant implications.

• Original Research: Research articles report original empirical studies in clinical nursing practice, nursing education, and/or theoretical and ethical foundations of nursing care. Manuscripts should be up to 6,000 words, including abstract, keywords, main text, tables, and figures. These reports present findings from high-quality evidence-based, clinical, and translational nursing research. Studies using diverse methodologies are welcome, including quantitative, qualitative, observational, quasi-experimental, experimental, and mixed-method designs. Authors must adhere to recognized reporting standards and guidelines.
• Reviews: Review articles include systematic, integrative, and literature reviews providing critical, comprehensive presentations on topics relevant to nursing education and clinical care. Reviews may be up to 7,000 words and should be scholarly and evidence-based, with critical analysis. Systematic reviews must follow PRISMA guidelines.
• Debate Articles: High-quality manuscripts designed to stimulate scholarly debate with direct impact on nursing education, practice, and care delivery. These are limited to 2,000 words.
• Editorials: Brief commentaries up to 1,500 words, with a maximum of 10 references. Editorials focus on emerging challenges in clinical care, nursing leadership, ethics, or educational reform.

Authors are expected to follow established reporting standards that correspond to their study design. For example, they should use the STROBE guidelines for observational studies, CONSORT for randomized controlled trials, and COREQ for qualitative research. These and other relevant guidelines are available through the EQUATOR Network. 

More detailed information about required reporting standards can be found in the Information for Authors section on the journal’s website.