Journal Information

Nursing Education and Community-Based Care is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes research on nursing education, on community-based nursing care, and on the connection between the two. The journal focuses on how nursing students and nurses are educated and prepared, how nursing care is delivered and sustained in community settings, and how education translates into better care and community health outcomes.

The journal is written for nurse educators and nursing faculty, nursing students, clinical and community nurses, nurse managers, and the interprofessional teams and policymakers involved in nursing education and community health care.

The journal welcomes manuscripts in, including but not limited to, the following areas:

1. Nursing Education and Learning

• Innovative teaching and learning methods in nursing (simulation, e-learning, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, blended learning)
• Curriculum planning, instructional design, and evaluation of nursing programs
• Assessment of clinical skills, professional competence, and competencies of nursing students
• Clinical education, clerkship, and internship in nursing (including hospital and community-based settings)
• Professional development and empowerment of nursing faculty (with emphasis on community-based care education)
• Interprofessional education and teamwork in nursing education

2. Community-Based Care in Nursing

• Theories and models of community-based, patient-centered, and family-centered care in nursing
• Home care, community health centers, and long-term care
• Community health, disease prevention, and health promotion
• Care for patients with chronic diseases in community settings: hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, renal failure, and other chronic conditions
• Self-management, self-care education, and empowerment of chronically ill patients and their families in the community
• Follow-up, continuity of care, and management of chronic diseases after hospital discharge
• Transitional care and continuity of care between hospital and community
• Screening, early detection, and genetic counseling in the community (with emphasis on sickle cell disease and thalassemia)
• Community nursing roles and care delivery models in community-based care
• Care for vulnerable and special groups in community settings (older adults, children, people with disabilities, patients with mental health conditions)
• Clinical care for hospitalized patients with a focus on community linkage and post-discharge continuity of care
• Patient safety, care errors, and quality improvement in community and hospital settings
• Ethics of care, patient dignity, and patients' rights in community settings
• Evidence-based care and its application in community clinical practice
• Therapeutic communication, communication skills, and patient education in community settings

3. Bridging Education and Community-Based Care

• Knowledge translation from education to clinical practice in community settings (theory-practice gap)
• Impact of nursing education on the quality of community-based care and community health outcomes
• Self-care education and management of chronic diseases (hypertension, diabetes, sickle cell disease, thalassemia, etc.) for patients and families
• Nursing education and preparation of students for caring for chronically ill patients in the community
• Clinical education and internship of nursing students in community-based settings (home care, community health centers, family health)
• Preparing nursing students to provide community-based care and respond to community health needs
• Nursing education for advanced roles in community-based care
• Development of nursing competencies in chronic care
• Interprofessional education in community settings
• Action research in community-based nursing education and care
• Innovation in community-based nursing education and care (simulation, e-learning, artificial intelligence)
• Psychological and social studies related to learning and care in community settings

Submissions must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere. Multiple, duplicate, or redundant publication is not permitted; where a manuscript overlaps with the authors' earlier work, that work must be cited and the overlap declared at submission.