CONNECT is an on-line journal, published four times per year and is available free of charge – via the CONNECT web site http://www.connectpublishing.com/ - to all individual members of associations who are members of WFCCN and EfCCNa - reaching an estimated 120,000 critical care nurses all over the world.
Articles in the current edition are available to download free of charge, for all nurses who register their E-mail address with the site. In addition, all people registered with CONNECT will receive a quarterly E-mail providing information on the contents of the latest issue.
The main purpose of CONNECT is to provide a forum for critical care nurses around the world to share good practice. It aims to be the voice of critical care nurses worldwide. One of its founding principles is that of support of the Critical Care Nursing speciality. CONNECTaims to create a nurturing environment that enables all critical care nurses to have a voice. As such, the editors believe that all nurses have something valuable to contribute to CONNECT that others may learn from. For this reason, no articles are rejected on the basis of language, and the editors undertake to provide help to authors, especially those writing in a second language.
CONNECTfocuses on clinical practice, and the editors are particularly keen to receive articles that describe or evaluate developments in nursing. The journal contains a mixture of articles, including descriptions of practice innovation, literature reviews, letters, conference reports, clinical skills guidelines, news items, research and, of course, all the latest information about developments in WFCCN. Its aim is to be a friendly journal – one that nurses read because they are interested.
More about the journal – what makes CONNECT different?
Making CONNECTions is the central theme for the journal. We want the journal to be about communication and collaboration on critical care issues, which are relevant to the world nursing community. Making CONNECTions embraces all of these ideas, hence the main title of the journal is CONNECT.
Development plans for CONNECT include is future publication in 6 languages; English, French, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Last update: 30 March 2005/Harth