Nursing Inquiry aims to stimulate examination of nursing's current and emerging practices, conditions and contexts within an expanding international community of ideas.
The journal aspires to excite thinking and stimulate action toward a preferred future for health and healthcare by encouraging critical reflection and lively debate on matters affecting and influenced by nursing from a range of disciplinary angles, scientific perspectives, analytic approaches, social locations and philosophical positions.
Toward this end, the Editor welcomes original research and discussion articles on a wide range of topics. Examples of the kinds of manuscripts that may be considered for publication include the following:
1. Substantive research that draws upon ideas from the humanities or social science perspectives to investigate and interpret nursing and healthcare practices, technologies and trends.
2. Substantive research that uses methodological innovation within empirical investigation to shed new light on health phenomena.
3. International or comparative perspectives on health, health care delivery, human health resources, health promotion or health planning from a global perspective.
4. Policy analysis that critically examines controversial or timely matters such as evolving health labour workforce, transitions in service delivery systems, or trends in health funding patterns.
5. Advancement of methodological approaches and frameworks to enrich and extend the capacity of nursing and healthcare inquiry.
6. Ethical inquiry that illuminates or challenges the assumptions underlying the everyday practices and policies affecting nursing and healthcare.
7. Philosophical inquiries that stimulate thought, deconstruct ideologies or challenge conformities related to the nature and expression of nursing and healthcare.
8. Historical research that revisits the assumptions upon which professional narratives have been built.
9. Critical integrative reviews of the current state of scientific and/or non-scientific knowledge in relation to conceptualization, practice, delivery or planning of health systems.
10. Discussion or opinion papers providing critical commentary on current trends, policies or practices in nursing.

Editor-in-Chief
Sally Thorne, University of British Columbia, Canada

Advisory Editors
Trudy Rudge, University of Sydney, Australia
Sioban Nelson, University of Toronto, Canada

Editors-in-Chief Emeritus
Judith Parker (1994-1999)
Sioban Nelson (1999-2010)

Editorial Office
NINedoffice@wiley.com

Editorial Board

Joan M. Anderson, University of British Columbia, Canada
Sanchia Aranda, University of Melbourne, Australia
Patricia Benner, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Kristín Björnsdóttir, University of Iceland, Iceland
Ivone Evangelista Cabral, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Patricia D'Antonio, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Suzanne Gordon, USA
Sigríður Halldórsdóttir, University of Akureyri, Iceland
Colin Holmes, Australia
Dave Holmes, University of California, Irvine, USA
Debra Jackson, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Marit Kirkevold, University of Oslo, Norway
Diana Lee, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Joan Liaschenko, University of Minnesota, USA
Joel Rolim Mancia, South Methodist University, Brazil
Carl May, London School of Hygeine & Tropical Medicine, UK
Afaf Meleis, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Joakim Öhlén, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Judith Parker, University of Melbourne, Australia
Elizabeth Peter, University of Toronto, Canada
Anthony Pryce, City University, UK
Mary-Ellen Purkis, University of Victoria, Canada
Anne Marie Rafferty, Kings College London, UK
Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, UNAIDS, Johannesburg, South Africa
Michael Traynor, Middlesex University, UK