J Korean Med Sci.  2024 Oct;39(38):e297. 10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e297.

Advancing Research, Writing, and Publishing in Nursing: Addressing Challenges and Improving Standards

• Arshabayeva GA
• Qumar AB
• Yessirkepov M
• Zimba O
• Kocyigit BF

• KMID: 2559787
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2024.39.e297

Abstract

Nurses constitute nearly 50% of the worldwide health workforce, and the World Health Organisation has advocated for an enlargement of their roles to guarantee fair health care and address the increasing need for services. The growing specialization in nursing practice has led to a rise in educational options for nurses, including the growth of PhD programs. These programs play a crucial role in preparing nurse researchers and educators. This growth underlines the importance of evidence-based practice and high-quality academic writing in nursing. The article highlights the importance of nurses’ involvement in creating evidencebased practice guidelines. The active engagement of nurses in developing evidence-based practice recommendations is essential to ensure the practicality, relevance, and grounding of these guidelines in real-world clinical experiences. The advancement of nursing depends mainly on using rigorous research procedures to generate, analyze, and disseminate knowledge and data. The current article discusses essential research methodologies, including interviews, surveys, and bibliometric and altmetric analyses. It also aims to tackle concerns about inadequate writing skills, plagiarism, and insufficient comprehension of ethical norms in research and publishing. The recommended strategies to promote nursing research and publications encompass enhancing writing skills through specialized education, embracing open-access publishing, and utilizing social media for broader distribution following publication. Implementing these approaches would increase the quality and impact of nursing publications and reinforce nursing’s role in defining health policy and enhancing the care of patients.

Keyword

Nursing; Nursing Research; Publishing; Periodicals as Topic; Ethics

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  Fig. 1 Strategies to improve writing skills and increase publication standards in nursing journals.

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