
About Nursing Praxis
"Praxis: The action and reflection of people upon their world in order to transform it." (Freire, 1972)
First published in November 1985, Nursing Praxis in New Zealand was the first peer-reviewed nursing journal to be published in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Journal continues to regularly publish material relevant to nursing and the health care sector and is highly valued as providing contemporary research, literature, and commentaries. Internationally, the Journal is well-renowned for its publication of articles related to cultural safety, Māori, and Indigenous peoples.
Nursing Praxis was revamped in 2010 with a new A4 size format and a new attitude, with articles ranging from research to professional comment, as well as personal experience stories, book reviews, conference and events reports. Publishing a diverse range of articles related to practice-based research and professional discussion, the November 2011 edition marked 26 years for this quality nursing journal.
In 2020 the Journal changed its name to Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand to reflect its strategic desire to promote the work of Māori authors and of research relating to Māori. The Journal was accepted for indexing on Scopus and going forward, all articles published receive a DOI (persistent identifier) and are registered with CrossRef.
To contribute to knowledge transmission and utilisation that stimulates and encourages praxis - "the action and reflection of people upon their world in order to transform it" (Friere, 1972).
To publish research, commentaries and discussion papers related to New Zealand, the Pacific Rim, and Indigenous peoples that are relevant to any aspect of nursing or health care practice that has the potential to influence nursing practice.
Cover
Crimson was deliberately chosen by the Editorial Group as the colour for this journal as it represents, for us, imagination, intuition, potentiality, struggle and transformation.
Koru
Designed for this journal by artist, Sam Rolleston: The central Koru indicates growth, activity and action. The mirrored lateral Koru branches indicate reflection. Transformation is shown by the change of the initial plain Koru design to a more elaborate one.
More recently the new Nursing Praxis website has been developed to include easy online access for all subscribers. Features include:
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Free access to all article abstracts, including te reo translations.
- Free access to editorials.
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Existing subscribers will automatically receive full access to the full text database of articles.
- Low subscription fees for institutions and individual subscribers.
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Option to purchase individual articles or issues.
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Searching the database of articles and issues is easy.
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View online in e-journal format for computers/e-readers/ipads.
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Print articles from PDF for your own personal use (All articles are copyright protected).
Nursing Praxis has a distribution going to nurses, health managers, institutions and health libraries in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. The Nursing Praxis website is accessed by nurses, educators, health workers , managers and undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students both locally and internationally.
Regular editions are e-published 3 times a year - March, July and November. In addition special editions in e-journal format are published from time to time.
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand is a division of the College of Nurses Aotearoa (NZ) Inc who provide IT infrastructure and archiving of journal material.
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Nursing Praxis is grateful to the many reviewers who volunteer to review manuscripts prior to publication. On average reviewers are sent 2 reviews each year, depending on their area of expertise. We are always looking to add to our database of reviewers both Aotearoa New Zealand and international.
Nursing Praxis subscribes to a blind peer review process, reviewers are not informed of who the author is and the authors and editorial board are not informed of who has completed the review. This ensures anonymity for reviewers and authors and a completely fair process prior to publication.
Reviews are requested via email and reviewers are asked to complete the review questionnaire within approximately 3 weeks. If you as a reviewer are requested to complete a review and you are not able to complete it in the time frame available, just let us know and we will send it to another reviewer.
If you have any questions about being a reviewer for Nursing Praxis , please email us at admin@nursingpraxis.org
We value the contribution of all of our reviewers and Nursing Praxis Reviewers who have completed reviews are issued with certificates annually.