EDITORIAL
Qualified scientific publication in Brazilian Nursing
Alacoque Lorenzini ErdmannI; Josicelia Dumêt FernandesII
ICoordinator of Nursing Area in CAPES (Training Coordination of University Educators)
IIAssociate Coordinator of Nursing Area in CAPES
Nursing is a specific field of knowledge and a social profession that is being consolidated and strengthened as a science, technology, and innovation.
Brazilian Nursing post-graduate is being consolidated in the formation of human resources in research, forming masters in nursing science since the beginning of the 70's and, doctors since the beginning of the 80's, strengthening its specificities and diversities. Furthermore, is articulating and also integrates its knowing with other determinative sectors of human life and health aiming a better nursing care for the citizen, human being in its complexity. Brazilian Nursing counts with 35 post-graduate courses in strictu sensu level, all of them is credentialed by the CAPES (17 doctoral degree, 32 master degree, and 3 professional master degree), 330 research groups as informed in the CNPq Group Research Directory, more than 130 researchers with productivity scholarship and one Nursing Area Associate Committee, created in 2006.
This consolidation also is reached by the internationalization through the visibility and international insertion due to the regional fortress and Latin-American leadership, where approaching and articulation are realized with the existing doctoral nursing courses in more than 32 countries, in some of them since the decade of 1960.
Knowledge production advances supported by the interdisciplinary, intersectoral, and complexity with significant earnings and returns for the social needs or internal impacts, of regional, national or international order, in the extent that the number of high impact publications grows, as they are absorbed and incorporated in practice, and made available in journals of the area, each time more qualified.
Brazilian Nursing represents more than 60% of healthcare professionals in the National Health System. Almost 1.3 million nursing workers demonstrate their solving and contributive job in healthcare area to attend population by the construction of knowledge that contributes for the promotion of being/living better and with health in the phenomena of human care. Brazilian Nursing is recognized as a social relevant service in knowledge and knowing field, its productive potential and solving competency for the generation of knowledge and technologies in the face of approximately 800 graduation courses and also of the demand of more qualified healthcare. Its autonomy is being consolidated by the increment of policies that strengthen its specificities and incorporate new proper actions, with advances in the articulation and partnerships of collective effort, supported by class organizations and scientific societies, specially like the Brazilian Nursing Association, in the determination of reaching goals and increments for the construction of relevant and innovative knowledge as a social, challenging and promising practice.
The care for human being is a value, a social good that is indispensable to promote the vitality of living, the having and maintaining life and a good die, it is a knowledge product, attitudes, and skills of human interaction, of life nature, and dynamics of life functions under the domain of nursing as a science and art. However, the technical-scientific competency of caring the citizen in his health-disease process and social context, requires the production of biological, social-critics, and humanist knowledge with interfaces in several knowledge fields, in the coverage that characterize the field of nursing and its interdependency with other fields, specially health, education, administration/organization ones in social public policies.
The nursing area in CAPES has focused the formation of its researchers within the profile of Doctor in Nursing, highlighting main competencies such as the management of tools and the process of knowledge diffusion in highly qualified journals.
As our journals raise up their quality by the indexation in widely spread databases and with an imposed articles control of quality required by databases, also raises the search and demand for more qualified articles by authors from Brazilian Nursing area as well as from authors from other countries.
The need for preparing indexed journals in databases that allows the access, and assures the quality of knowledge or information contained in them; it becomes essential for the formation of our professionals and post-graduate, as well as for the increment of utilization of these vehicles as a way to update or continued education in national and international extent.
The more qualified publication are product of nursing area advances as a field of knowledge that grows in quality in all its segments, which values the knowing and the scientific-technologic competency of the profession, going toward the conquest of new references that support proper actions of nursing care.
The relevance of qualified publications in Brazilian Nursing is a challenge that is being won due to the investment and effort of our editors and community involved and committed with the quality of the journals of the area.
Publication Dates
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Publication in this collection
14 Sept 2009 -
Date of issue
Aug 2009
