Nursing magazines

Daytonite, BSN, RN · Aug 9, 2006

Hi,keylime!

Here are links to lists of nursing journals for you to browse through. I have been subscribing to Nursing since I was a student back in the 1970's. They change the year on it, so currently it's title is Nursing 2006. RN Magazine is also good. Both these publications are aimed at nurses who work in the hospitals. The newest publication around is a magazine called Nursing Made Incredibly Easy which is published 6 times a year (bimonthly) and is aimed at providing information about nursing patients with specific medical conditions. Students like it. However, it does not contain the variety of information that Nursing does. The American Nurses Association publishes the American Journal of Nursing. You can subscribe to it separately or it comes as part of one's membership with the ANA. It will include some nursing research in it. In general, most of the more specific area nursing journals, such as the geriatric and psych nursing ones, often have articles that are synopses of research being done by nurses who are working on their Master's or higher degrees. So, at the student level, I would stick with the magazines I've mentioned above. I'm sure some others will post to this thread as well. You can also do a search for old threads on this subject to find more information. Do check out the links I've given you, however. There is some information for these journals that you can access for free on their websites. Once you become a subscriber of Nursing or RN you can input a PIN they give you so that you can get online access to all old journal articles that they have online. That's a nice added bonus to subscribing to their publications! Also check to see if they will give you a student rate when you subscribe.

Something else students may not be aware of is that there are many articles contained in the nursing journals that are offered for continuing education credit. Normally, you wouldn't see these articles if you didn't subscribe to the particular magazine. Now, to student nurses this doesn't mean much. But us licensed nurses need a certain number of continuing education units to renew our licenses for each renewal time. Many of the major magazines put these continuing education articles online where they can be read for FREE. Nurses only have to pay when they want to take the continuing education test and get the continuing education credit to apply to their license renewal. Many of these articles have really good up-to-date information about a lot of nursing subjects and procedures. I have a list of online offerers of nursing CEUs and often browse through what they have when looking for help for nursing students.

http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/index.asp#journals - this is the list of magazines on the Nursing Center website. I am not sure if these are just the nursing magazines that Lippincott publishes.

http://www.advanstarhealthcare.com/hcg/static/staticHtml.jsp?id=157585 - nursing magazines published by advanstar

http://www.studentnurses.com/research/journals.html

http://www.rnweb.com/rnweb/ - the home page of RN magazine

http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/journals.asp?YY=2006&Journal_ID=522928&About=1 - home page of LPN2006

Welcome to allnurses! :welcome:

VickyRN, MSN, DNP, RN · Aug 9, 2006

Great advice by Daytonite. You may also want to check out this thread:

https://allnurses.com/forums/f205/help-need-journal-article-144469.html

Best wishes to you :)

keylime · Aug 9, 2006

I am new here, and waiting to go to school, May 07. This site has been AMAZING! Full of people that are giving of their small amount of free time to help others. Even though one person has asked the question, I can tell many including myself have read the answer and thought, that was a great question and answer, I will have to remember that! Just know your good deeds are benefiting many. I really have nothing to contribute to this site yet, but when I have more knowledge I promise to return the favor to others.

Corvette Guy · Aug 9, 2006

I am new here, and waiting to go to school, May 07. This site has been AMAZING! Full of people that are giving of their small amount of free time to help others. Even though one person has asked the question, I can tell many including myself have read the answer and thought, that was a great question and answer, I will have to remember that! Just know your good deeds are benefiting many. I really have nothing to contribute to this site yet, but when I have more knowledge I promise to return the favor to others.

Excuse me? You have already contributed greatly by initiating this thread, as well as a similar one.

BTW, if you later lean towards critical care nursing I highly recommend you join AACN, which includes subscriptions to several excellent journals.

Good luck in your quest to become a nurse!

Dratz · Aug 9, 2006

Hi Keylime:

I remember as a pre-student waiting to get into my program, asking the same question on here. I got a few mags free just by asking on the websites...I think they offer so many free copies so you can view the mag first before committing to a subscription... so that was fun.,...then chose not to subscribe because I found them too expensive.

Needless to say, I did enjoy reading the articles but being that I was a fresh eager "waiting to get in student", everything that I read was Chinese to me (looking back on it). Now.....however, I would get a magazine subscription to read because I know what the heck they are talking about (at times lol).

I am also a "get ahead" of instructors, "get ahead" in reading type of person but am slowly finding that I need to slow down here...and not do too much getting ahead because I am on information overload at the moment and nothing is making sense...

With that being said...good luck with your waiting. It is tough to wait, I know!!!. My weak point while "waiting" was Med Math...I knew it..and planned for it. So I found out from the college "ahead of time LOL" what the text for it was, purchased it and then did the entire workbook "Ahead of time"...and got teased for that when my fellow students discovered that I had done that.....But....I felt so much better reviewing my math skills while I "waited" and my prep work served me well in the long run. Don't even ask me what I have done to prepare for second year over the summer as I sit waiting for year two to start hehe...cuz it would floor you all the prep work I have done:rotfl: :rotfl:

The magazines are fun. And very interesting...In fact, when I graduate I might ask for a subscription to one of them as a gift.

Good luck in your studies, Enjoy the Message board and Welcome to Allnurses.com