MESSAGE FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Abstract

In the present day, nursing interventions focus on health promotion. A nursing journal like The Malaysian Journal of Nursing acts as an intervention guide that can be used as health education tools to teach adults, their families, and their caregivers about actions they can take to promote wellness. The Malaysian Journal of Nursing (MJN) contributes to the advancement of evidence-based nursing, midwifery, and healthcare by distributing high-quality research and scholarship of present-day relevance and with the potential to progress knowledge for practice, education, management or policy. As an international journal, MJN promotes diversity of research and scholarship in terms of culture, paradigm and healthcare context. Consequently MJN’s readership includes practising nurses and midwives in all spheres and at all levels who are dedicated to advancing practice and professional development on the basis of new knowledge and evidence; managers and senior members of the nursing and midwifery professions; nurse educators and nursing students; and researchers in other disciplines with interest in common issues and inter-disciplinary collaboration.

Therefore MJN publishes manuscripts that progress knowledge and understanding of all aspects of nursing and midwifery care, research, practice, education, and management and policy. All manuscripts have a sound scientific, theoretical or philosophical base. In this manner, MJN seeks to engage a broad range of clinicians, scholars and community leaders for a continuous exchange of information through scholarly articles, including original research, research reviews, evidenced-based innovations in clinical practice or policy, commentaries, and letters to the editor. In addition to the nursing perspective, the journal also includes articles in the field of medicine, public health, epidemiology, health services research, policy analysis, education administration, and other disciplines that help in the health and well-being of the society.