EDITORIAL
Adding values
The expression "added value" was first employed in the Economy Marketing areas as a result of a great offer of products and information for the consumer.
The offer of these services/products increases exponentially. The consumer selects which product or service provides a differential input from the others. It explains the fact that this expression has been used in the Nursing area because it offers services and products for the society.
The objective of the Editorial Board of the Acta Paulista of Nursing is to make some considerations on this new concept and to add it to the periodical.
Our major challenge is to find out the "set point" of the value added to scientific information published in every fascicle of the current Acta Paulista of Nursing.
The great number of ideas, which we are daily submitted by the media: newspapers, TV, magazines, health magazines, etc arouses a questioning about the correct choice of these means of communication.
Thus, to search for this set point and making this periodical a distinguished instrument to bring Nursing scientific information have been our constant concern in relation to the editorial guidelines for this periodical.
The fundamental questions were:
- The published information will make us less needed on scientific knowledge?
- The choice of information to be published will add some value to the national and international nurses?
Answers could come from other questionings.
How information involve reflections on the nature of the Nursing knowledge?
- Which contribution may define the extent and domain of this knowledge field?
- Does it contribute to the theoretical and methodological development of the nursing knowledge?
- Does it aim the meaning, nature and value of the interaction experiences with clients?
- Does it reflect the social mission and clinical phenomenon of Nursing?
These answers will guide our future decision demonstrating the Acta's trend to publish scientific knowledge.
Knowledge on the contributions in relation to value for the consumers must be analyzed.
The initial analysis regarding the information value begins in the Committee in charge of the Editorial Guidelines.
The information economy must also be an introjected concept when considering the periodical as a business.
Our client searches for quality information at low cost, that is, to receive the needed information and service with quality in a real time and it must have a differential input, adding value to the acquired knowledge.
These considerations have as a focal point the following question: what can we do to make a difference in our clients life and the communities to whom we offer services?
We hope to extend our reflections on the epistemological and ontological nature of nursing.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
27 Sept 2007 -
Date of issue
Sept 2005
