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What is Graduate Research
On-line Journals?
Graduate Research LLC publishes clinical research for health care professionals on-line. There are currently two journals available: Graduate Research in Nursing (GRN) and Research for Nursing Practice (RNP). GRN publishes research and other scholarly writings of nursing graduate students, while RNP publishes research, case studies and other practice based work developed by nurses in the practice setting. Why publish research on-line?Research and other knowledge developed by nurses often takes years to reach the nursing literature. Some projects never appear in print at all. Publishing on-line is an option for those who do not want to wait for the long review process and the rejection rates of the traditional nursing literature. Although peer review is thorough and manuscripts are rejected at times, this site focuses on getting good work published.How to publish your work at this site To find out which journal fits your work, check out both journals to read about editorial policy and formats. Then go to the submission instructions. What about peer review? Until now at this site, all peer review has occurred on-line. By making nursing research interactive we have provided a feedback mechanism that has not been matched elsewhere. We had hoped that this forum would encourage collaboration, sharing of instruments, data, results and much more. However, the response to this form of review has been very slow. We have therefore opted to establish an editorial review board. Each accepted article will be submitted for review prior to publication. The author will receive a copy of the review, and salient parts of the review will be published along with the article so readers can benefit from the comments of the reviewer. In addition, a listserv has been set up for discussion of the issues raised in the journals. A link to join the discussion group has been provided. Letters to the editor are
also welcome and will be shared with authors in advance of publication
as is customary elsewhere.
What does it cost to subscribe?As of October 1, 2000, all areas of the site are free.About the publisher and editor-in-chiefMy name is Naja E. K. McKenzie (RN, PhD(c)). I am a resident of Tucson, Arizona, USA and a PhD candidate in Clinical Nursing Research at University of Arizona College of Nursing. I worked for 10 years in medical-surgical nursing, mainly orthopedics, for 4 years as a nurse recruiter in California, and for 7 years, until April 1998, in the medical device industry until I became a casualty of a merger.I obtained my first degree (BA Hons.) in Philosophy from University of Reading in Reading, Berkshire, UK, returning to the US in 1970. After a nasty incident with a truck a few years later, I decided to return to school to study Nursing. I attended University of Arizona College of Nursing for my BSN, graduating in 1980. Five years later, having seen LA at its best during the 1984 Olympic Games, I enrolled in the UCLA School of Nursing for my MN in Medical Surgical Nursing with Administration focus. I graduated in 1987 and went to work for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals as Director of Regional RN Recruitment and Retention for the Southern California Region. In 1990, a year after the birth of our first child, I moved with my family to San Diego County (North County). In North County I worked for a manufacturer of infrared ear thermometers setting up a clinical research program and assisting with marketing and R & D. I have been on the web for about 8 years and am an active contributor to NurseNet and NurseRes listservs. In my PhD program, my research focus is in the area of female adolescent sexuality. My dissertation is about female adolescent sexuality management: how teenage girls develop ways of managing their sexuality. My second area of expertise is clinical thermometry. I have been working with thermometers for 10 years and was a member of the ASTM task group that wrote the standard for infrared ear thermometers. I consult for two manufacturers of clinical thermometry systems and edit a commercially sponsored thermometry web site. My husband, David, is a student affairs professional at The University of Arizona and we have two fabulous children: Michael and Briana, who are in elementary and middle school respectively. In my spare time (!!) I play
badminton at the senior level (50+) and read.
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