The Norwegian Journal of Clinical Nursing (Sykepleien Forskning) is a Norwegian peer-reviewed journal whose aim is to publish research of relevance to all aspects of nursing. 

ISSN:1890-2936 GE-ISSN: 1891-2710

The Norwegian Journal of Clinical Nursing publishes articles that can help raise the standard of nursing practice, nursing education and method development in nursing science. The research articles we publish are open access and licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. The Norwegian Journal of Clinical Nursing is a level 1 journal and is indexed in Cinahl and Jisc open policy finder. The Journal publishes approximately 40 per cent of the articles submitted.  

The Norwegian Journal of Clinical Nursing’s Editor-In-Chief is Jonas Debesay. Stein Ove Danielsen and Ingvild Beathe Myrhaugen Tjelmeland are Associate Editors. Read more about the journal's editorial team

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Illustrasjonen viser diverse medisinsk utstyr, som pilleboks, plaster, reagensrør med blod, sprøyte m.m.

How nursing research has developed

In the last twenty years, PhD theses in nursing science at the University of Oslo (UiO) have changed in terms of methodology, authorship and theoretical approach. Has the research become less patient-centred and patient-oriented?  

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