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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Bildet viser en helsesykepleier som er på hjemmebesøk hos en mor og baby

Many mothers were in touch with child health centres during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mothers who engaged with the ‘New families’ home visit programme, had more frequent contact with child health centres. But more than a third of all the mothers reported that they had received inadequate information from public authorities about the child health centre’s services.

Research01.10.2021

Bildet viser en baby på intensivavdelingen

Registered nurses play a clearly defined role and perform a distinct function in Interdisciplinary Specialized Substance Abuse Treatment teams

Research26.11.2021

Bildet viser et forstørrelsesglass og hjerteslag

Both registered nurses and patients with type 2 diabetes can benefit from a person-centred approach to dialogue in nursing consultations

Research15.10.2021

First-time mothers received less breastfeeding assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Research09.09.2021

Bildet viser sykepleiere som forbereder en pasient for operasjon

Hospitals had insufficient standardisation in relation to preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in day surgery patients

Research10.08.2021

Bildet viser en sykepleier som dekker opp instrumentbordet før operasjon

Set-up of instrument tables: the ‘Safe Surgery’ checklist does not include crucial recommendations for the safety of patients and staff

Research04.08.2021

Bildet viser en eldre, syk dame i senga. Familien sitter på sengekanten, og en mann holder rundt henne.

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Many mothers were in touch with child health centres during the COVID-19 pandemic

Children under two years of age can develop delirium

Student exchanges provided valuable cultural competence for the future nursing role

Is ‘existential care’ well integrated into nursing education programmes?

Registered nurses find inserting a peripheral venous catheter (PVC) complex and difficult

Teaching assistants help students with anatomy, physiology and biochemistry

Registered nurses play a clearly defined role and perform a distinct function in Interdisciplinary Specialized Substance Abuse Treatment teams

Recruiting patients to the Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme can seem random

The mobile app PocketPinard can be a useful aid for fetal monitoring

Private ultrasound examination in the first trimester gives women reassurance

Both registered nurses and patients with type 2 diabetes can benefit from a person-centred approach to dialogue in nursing consultations

First-time mothers received less breastfeeding assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hospitals had insufficient standardisation in relation to preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia in day surgery patients

Set-up of instrument tables: the ‘Safe Surgery’ checklist does not include crucial recommendations for the safety of patients and staff

Close relatives play an important role in the allocation of long-term nursing home beds

Children who stutter: Public health nurses must assess disfluencies and frequencies

What benefits do registered nurses obtain from competence networks for cancer and palliative care?

Decisions regarding withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment are not always made in the child’s best interest