Welcome to 'The International Journal of Psychiatric Nursing Research'
 "The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shoreline of wonder". Stockman. Picture by John Durrant
Published since 1994 the Journal has gone from strength to strength relying on its independent non-profit profile to promote research accross the world. The IJPNR has been able to create, produce and make available a quality journal exporting research data to well over 30 countries around the world.
The name Drogoresearch.com is adapted from Saint Drogo (1105 - 1189) a Saint who was venerated for his compassion, humility and kindness to people suffering from a mental illness. One of the main aims of the Journal is to help encourage a better understanding of severe and enduring mental illness and advance good clinical standards of care by a validated reference process that disseminates and publicizes high quality psychiatric nursing research papers across the world.
The IJPNR Journal established in 1994 is one of the leading lights in publishing top quality psychiatric nursing research manuscripts and has successfully contributed to distributing in text and cyberspace forms over One Hundred high quality research papers to well over 30 different countries.
Important News about the Journal for 2008 With the ever increasing cost of printing and postage it is uneconomical to continue to produce hard copies of the journal without a prohibitive increase in subscriptions. In order to keep costs to a minimum it has been decided that as from January 2008 the journal will only be published electronically. This will be an advantage to the great majority of our readership who already view the journal online in that our publication will become continuous. Alternatively, the journal can be sent to readers on disc.
We try very hard to keep the costs of the journal as low as possible, even so there will have to be an increase in price. Sadly therefore the subscription rates, per year, from January 2008 will be:
Individual £40
Institutional £80
Compared with other journals this is still good value for money.
May 2008,
Volume 13, Issue 3
Article by William Whitfield No abstract for this article. more  Article by Lena-Mari Sjöblom, RN, MSc, doctoral student (1). Leon Wiberg, RN, MSc (1). Anita Pejlert, RNT, MD (1). Kenneth Asplund, RN, PhD, professor (1), (2), (3). (1) Department of Health Sciences, Mid-Sweden University, S-831 25 Östersund, Sweden. (2) Department of Nursing, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. (3) Department of Nursing Science, University of Tromsö, Tromsö, Norway. Aim
The aim of this study was to describe how family members of a person suffering from mental illness experienced contact with formal psychiatric care.
Background
When coming in contact with formal psychiatric care families experience complications such as social isolation and... more Article by Brenda Happell, Professor of Contemporary Nursing, Department of Health Innovation, Coordinator, Mental and Psychosocial Health, CQU Healthy Communities, Centre for Social Science Research, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Health, Central Queensland University, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, 4702, Queensland, Australia. The nursing literature increasingly provides some encouragement for nurses to consider writing for publication in refereed journals. Despite the fact that the publication process depends upon the availability of nurses with the interest, skills and knowledge to undertake the review process, there... more Article by Brenda Happell, Professor of Contemporary Nursing, Department of Health Innovation, Coordinator, Mental and Psychosocial Health, CQU Healthy Communities, Centre for Social Science Research, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Health, Central Queensland University, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, 4702, Queensland, Australia. The number of Australian nurses undertaking higher degree studies is increasing considerably. The completion of a Doctor of Philosophy or Masters by Research project involves the investment of considerable time and other valuable resources on the part of the student. The successful completion of... more Article by Brenda Happell, Professor of Contemporary Nursing, Department of Health Innovation, Coordinator, Mental and Psychosocial Health, CQU Healthy Communities, Centre for Social Science Research, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Health, Central Queensland University, Bruce Highway, Rockhampton, 4702, Queensland, Australia. The increase in Australian nurses undertaking study at the higher degree level has increased the demand with quality supervision. Consequently nurse academics have been required to meet these demands with out necessarily having the level of experience they would ideally desire. Successful... more
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