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Research is the active pursuit of discovering new and relevant information through systematic inquiry. A foundational role of the AANA Journal is bringing research to our readers that assists us in refining the way we think about and practice our specialty. The age of evidence-based practice is upon us, and we must actively embrace the opportunity that it provides to merge research, skill, intuition, and humanitarianism.
Keywords: Dissemination, evidence-based practice, informing practice, research.
Delivering Research Findings to You is Part of Our Mission: A View from the AANA Journal Editor in Chief
The quintessential business of the AANA Journal is the generation and dissemination of ideas. Because of the informational blitzkrieg associated with coming to know what one needs to know, and the evidencebased practices that underscore our patient interventions, the role of the Journal continues to escalate in importance. Part of that role involves bringing research to our readers that serves to refine the way we think about and practice our specialty.
The AANA Journal makes every effort to contribute to the stream of knowledge that you must negotiate and incorporate into mainline clinical, educational, and administrative practice domains. But ensuring that the stream can be navigated is at times akin to the Sisyphean task where a large stone is repeatedly pushed up a steep mountain, only to roll back each time the summit is approached. Whether selecting an antiemetic, administering an intravenous fluid, deciding on mechanical ventilator settings, planning postoperative pain control, assessing a methodology to convey contemporary practice elements to students, or resolving how to best economize the operating room, we rely on research to provide a foundation for clinical decision making, thus avoiding fads and inferior alternatives.
Without question, the dissemination of research findings to...