Biological Research For Nursing
One of the greatest challenges in nursing today is how to integrate information from many basic disciplines—biology, physiology, chemistry, engineering, education, communication, and the social sciences—into nursing research, theory, and clinical practice. Biological Research for Nursing is the only publication that helps nurse researchers, educators, and practitioners meet this important challenge by focusing on biological and physiological changes in healthy and unhealthy populations from a nursing perspective.
Published quarterly, this journal offers peer-reviewed original and systematic review articles focused on:
- Normal and abnormal biological phenomena, such as stress, pain management, and wound healing.
- Improvements in healthcare interventions/techniques developed through biological and physiological research.
- New methods, instruments, and techniques for biological and physiological health research.
- Pathophysiology and the biological foundations of nursing practice.
- Genetics
- Pathophysiology
- Microbiology
- Reproduction
- Neuroscience
- Pharmacology
- Infectious Disease
- Oncology
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Pulmonary Disease
- Immunology
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- Hematology
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Nutrition and Exercise
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/BRN.
Created to fill the gap between nursing science and basic science, Biological Research for Nursing offers a lively forum for empirical and methodological issues related to normal and abnormal physiological functions that can affect nursing care. Published quarterly, the scope of the journal includes but is not limited to:
- Normal and abnormal biological phenomena, such as stress, pain management, and wound healing.
- Improvements in healthcare interventions/techniques developed through biological and physiological research.
- New methods, instruments, and techniques for biological and physiological health research.
- Pathophysiology and the biological foundations of nursing practice.
| Carolyn B. Yucha, RN, PhD, FAAN | Professor and Dean Emeritus, School of Nursing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA |
| Barbara St. Pierre Schneider, PhD, RN, FAAN | Professor, Endowed Chair, University of Texas, Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA |
| Marnie Wiss, BA | Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Patsy A. Perry, PhD, RN | Arizona State University, USA |
| Christine E. Kasper, PhD, RN, FAAN, FACSM | Graduate School of Nursing at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences |
| Sheila A. Alexander, PhD, RN, FCCM | Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| Flávia Figueiredo Azevedo, PhD | Professor, Nursing Department, Technical High School of Campinas (COTUCA), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil |
| Sivia Barnoy, RN, PhD | Professor, Nursing Department, School of Health Professions, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Robert L. Burr, MSEE, PhD | Research Professor Emeritus, Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
| Barbara Waag Carlson, PhD, RN | Professor, College of Nursing, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA |
| Ann Cashion, PhD, RN, FAAN | Professor Emerita, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA |
| Omar Cauli, PharmD, MD, PhD | Professor and Director of Master in Nursing Oncology, Department of Nursing, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain |
| Seon Yoon Chung, PhD, RN, CNE, CHSE | Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI, USA |
| Yvette Conley, PhD, FAAN | Professor of Nursing and Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| María Correa-Rodríguez, PhD, RN | Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Spain |
| Elizabeth J. Corwin, PhD, RN, FAAN | Vice Dean of Strategic and Innovative Research, Columbia University School of Nursing, New York, NY, USA |
| Patricia Cowan, PhD, RN, FAAN | Dean and Professor, College of Nursing, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA |
| Chad L. Cross, PhD, PStat® | Professor-In-Residence, School of Public Health, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| Georgina L. Dobek, DVM, DACLAM | Director, Department of Comparative Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA |
| Jennifer R. Dungan, PhD, RN | Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing Science, University of Florida College of Nursing, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Melissa Spezia Faulkner, PhD, RN, FAAN | Adjunct Professor in Nursing, Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing & Health Professions, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA |
| Du Feng, PhD | Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
| Wen Gao, PhD, RN | Assistant Research, School of Public Health and Nursing, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China |
| Maureen Wimberly Groër, PhD, RN, FAAN | Gordon Keller Professor, College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, Tampa, FL, USA |
| Margaret McLean Heitkemper, PhD, RN, FAAN | Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, School of Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA |
| Kathleen Insel, PhD, RN | Professor, College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA |
| Paule Valery Joseph, PhD, MS, FNP-BC, CTN-B | Lasker Clinical Research Scholar, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse & Alcoholism, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| Maria Dyah Kurniasari, PhD | Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing, Satya Wacana Christian University, Salatiga City, Central Java, Indonesia |
| Deborah A. Lekan, PhD, RN-BC | Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA |
| Tingting Liu, PhD, RN, FAAN | Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA |
| Adetola Louis-Jacques, MD | Assistant Professor, Morsani College of Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA |
| Donna McCarthy, PhD RN | Professor Emeritus, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA |
| Mary McCarthy, PhD, RN, CNSC, FASPEN, FAAN | Nurse Scientist, Center for Nursing Science and Clinical Inquiry, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA, USA |
| Victoria Menzies, PhD, APRN, FAAN | Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA |
| Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN | Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Physiological Nursing, American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor and Sharon Lamb Endowed Chair in Symptom Management Research, School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA |
| Tiffany A. Moore, PhD, RN | Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA |
| Madalynn Neu, PhD, RN, FAAN | Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of Colorado, Nurse Scientist, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA |
| Gholam Rasul Mohammad Rahimi, PhD | Vahdat Institute of Higher Education, Torbat-e-Jam, Iran |
| Sharon L. Ruyak, PhD, CNM, RN | Associate Professor, College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
| Karen L. Saban, PhD, RN, APRN, CNRN, FAHA, FAAN | Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Scholarly Innovation, Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Komal Singh, PhD, RN | Nurse-Scientist, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix, AZ, USA |
| Leslie-Faith Taub, PhD, ANP-C, GNP-BC, CDE, CBSM, CME (DOT), FAANP | Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program, Rory Meyers College of Nursing, New York University, USA |
| Pei-Shan Tsai, PhD, RN, BCIA | Professor and Dean, College of Nursing, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Reba Umberger, PhD, RN, CCRN-K | Associate Professor, Loewenberg College of Nursing, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA |
| JoEllen Wilbur, PhD, APN, FAAN | Professor and Endowed Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing, Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing, Rush University, Chicago, IL, USA |
| Michelle L. Wright, PhD, RN, FAAN | Clinical Staff Scientist, Neuro-Oncology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA |
| An-Yun Yeh, PhD, ACNPC-AG | Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Staten Island, NY, USA |
| Feng Zhang, PhD, RN | Associate Professor and Vice Dean, School of Nursing and Rehabilitation, Nantong University, Jiangsu, China |
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Papers should only be submitted for consideration once consent is given by all contributing authors. Those submitting papers should carefully check that all those whose work contributed to the paper are acknowledged as contributing authors.
The list of authors should include all those who can legitimately claim authorship. This is all those who:
(i) Made a substantial contribution to the concept and design, acquisition of data or analysis and interpretation of data,
(ii) Drafted the article or revised it critically for important intellectual content,
(iii) Approved the version to be published.
Authors should meet the conditions of all of the points above. Each author should have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content.
When a large, multicentre group has conducted the work, the group should identify the individuals who accept direct responsibility for the manuscript. These individuals should fully meet the criteria for authorship.
Acquisition of funding, collection of data, or general supervision of the research group alone does not constitute authorship, although all contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in the Acknowledgments section.
Please refer to the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) authorship guidelines for more information on authorship.
Manuscripts will be initially reviewed by the editor to ensure appropriateness for the journal. Suitable manuscripts will be peer reviewed. Biological Research for Nursing adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. Authors should expect to receive an initial publication decision within 2 months of submission. Copyright for all published manuscripts is vested in the publisher. Manuscripts should be written in English, and all copy should be double spaced. Style should conform generally to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). Manuscripts should generally be no more than 25 pages in length, including text, references, figures and tables. Reports of pilot or feasibility studies should be no longer than 15 pages. Authors submitting manuscripts that exceed these page limits should send a query letter via email to the editor-in-chief explaining the need for additional length. Manuscripts submitted should consist of the following:
Biological Research for Nursing requires all authors to acknowledge their funding in a consistent fashion under a separate heading. Please visit the Funding Acknowledgements page on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway to confirm the format of the acknowledgment text in the event of funding, or state that: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. It is the policy of Biological Research for Nursing to require a declaration of conflicting interests from all authors enabling a statement to be carried within the paginated pages of all published articles.
Please ensure that a ‘Declaration of Conflicting Interests’ statement is included at the end of your manuscript, after any acknowledgements and prior to the references. If no conflict exists, please state that ‘The Author(s) declare(s) that there is no conflict of interest’.
RESEARCH ETHICS AND INFORMED CONSENT
Medical research involving human subjects must be conducted according to the World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki.
Submitted manuscripts should conform to the ICMJE Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals, and all papers reporting animal and/or human studies must state in the methods section that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board provided (or waived) approval. Please ensure that you have provided the full name and institution of the review committee, in addition to the approval number.
For research articles, authors are also required to state in the methods section whether participants provided informed consent and whether the consent was written or verbal.
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Marnie Wiss, Managing Editor
Tel: 352-275-6381
Fax: 888-396-7963
Email:marnie.wiss@unlv.edu
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