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    Ukrainian-Speaking Migrants’ Concerning the Use of Interpreters in Healthcare Service: A Pilot Study

    Emina Hadziabdic

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 1.
    Electronic Publication Date: February 15, 2016
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    Mental Health Nursing, Mechanical Restraint Measures and Patients’ Legal Rights

    Soren Birkeland and Frederik A. Gildberg

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 8.
    Electronic Publication Date: March 28, 2016
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    TIME - MAKING THE BEST OF IT!
    A Fieldwork Study Outlining Time in Endoscopy Facilities for Short-Term Stay

    Karin Bundgaard, Erik E. Sørensen and Charlotte Delmar

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 15.
    Electronic Publication Date: April 27, 2016
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    What is Health and What is Important for its Achievement? A Qualitative Study on Adolescent Boys’ Perceptions and Experiences of Health

    Eva Randell, Lars Jerdén, Ann Öhman and Renée Flacking

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 26.
    Electronic Publication Date: April 29, 2016
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    An Investigation of Nurses’ Job Satisfaction in a Private Hospital and Its Correlates

    Wai-Tong Chien and Sin-Yin Yick

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 99.
    Electronic Publication Date: May 27, 2016
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    The Effect of Educational Intervention Regarding the Knowledge of Mothers on Prevention of Accidents in Childhood

    Elayne Cristina Soares Silva, Maria Neyrian de Fátima Fernandes, Márcia Caroline Nascimento Sá, Layane Mota de Souza, Ariadne Siqueira de Araújo Gordon, Ana Cristina Pereira de Jesus Costa, Thábyta Silva de Araújo, Queliane Gomes da Silva Carvalho, Carlos Colares Maia, Ana Larissa Gomes Machado, Fabiane do Amaral Gubert, Leonardo Alexandrino da Silva and Neiva Francenely Cunha Vieira

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 113.
    Electronic Publication Date: July 29, 2016
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    The Shift in Existential Life Situations of Adult Children to Parents with Dementia Relocated to Nursing Homes

    Linda Høgsnes, Karl-Gustaf Norbergh, Ella Danielson and Christina Melin-Johansson

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 122.
    Electronic Publication Date: August 25, 2016
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    Ageing with Muscular Disease

    Bente Martinsen and Pia Dreyer

    The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 131.
    Electronic Publication Date: November 30, 2016
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      Edited by: Debra A. Scrandis
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        Innovations in Mental Health Care

        Debra A. Scrandis

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 36.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        Using Humor in Treatment of Substance Use Disorders: Worthy of Further Investigation

        Benjamin Canha

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 37.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        The Use of Phone Technology in Outpatient Populations: A Systematic Review

        Ana C. Duarte and Sue A. Thomas

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 45.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        Advanced Practice Registered Nurses: Gateway to Screening for Bipolar Disorder in Primary Care

        Ann Marie Kriebel-Gasparro

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 59.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        Promoting Access Through Integrated Mental Health Care Education

        Karan Kverno

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 73.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        Mini Review of Integrated Care and Implications for Advanced Practice Nurse Role

        Diana McIntosh, Laura F. Startsman and Suzanne Perraud

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 78.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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        Mindfulness Based Programs Implemented with At-Risk Adolescents

        Kristen Rawlett and Debra Scrandis

        The Open Nursing Journal, 2016; 10: 90.
        Electronic Publication Date: April 30, 2016
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      The Open Nursing Journal

      ISSN: 1874-4346
      Volume: 12, 2018

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      W.T. Chien
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      The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
      Kowloon
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      Biography of W.T. Chien

      Prof. CHIEN was graduated from his Ph.D. in Nursing at King’s College London, United Kingdom and obtained the grandfather fellowship of Hong Kong Academy of Nursing in Education and Research in 2012 and the Research Scholarship Award (Community Leader), Pi Iota Chapter, The Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing in 2009. Prof. Chien is a professor in mental health nursing and Associate Head (Research) in School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has secured over 30 health research grants and published over 130 scientific publications. Prof. CHIEN has contributed to mental health promotion and care Hong Kong and Asia in the past 20 years by establishing psycho-education, motivational interviewing, mindfulness-based, and other psychosocial intervention programs to people with mental health problems and their family members.

      School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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      • Evaluating Pictures of Nature and Soft Music on Anxiety and Well-Being During Elective Surgery

        April 24, 2018
      • Patients’ Main Concerns About Having a Sibling Stem Cell Donor – A Grounded Theory Study

        March 30, 2018
      • A Review of Trend of Nursing Theories related Caregivers in Korea

        March 30, 2018
      • Effectiveness of Surface Cleaning and Disinfection in a Brazilian Healthcare Facility

        March 26, 2018
      • A Review of Trend of Nursing Theories related Caregivers in Korea

        February 08, 2018
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          • Volume 12, 2018
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          Three more Bentham Science Journals indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Thomson Reuters
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          Thomson Reuters has selected the following Journals published by Bentham Science Publishers for coverage in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index launched by Thomson Reuters, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields.

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          Adolescent Psychiatry indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Thomson Reuters
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          The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) is a new index launched by Thomson Reuters, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of regional importance and in emerging scientific fields.

          Adolescent Psychiatry publishes original research, critical reviews of topics relevant to practitioners, clinical observations with analysis and discussion, analysis of philosophical, ethical or social aspects of the fields of psychiatry and mental health, case reports with discussions, letters, and position papers.

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          Bentham Science Launches “Current Applied Polymer Science”
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          Bentham Science is pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Current Applied Polymer Science. The inaugural journal issue is available online for free access here: https://benthamscience.com/journals/current-applied-polymer-science/volume/1/issue/1/

          Current Applied Polymer Science publishes expert review articles and thematic issues in all applied aspects of polymer science. The founding editor of Current Applied Polymer Science is Dr. Sixun Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China). View the full editorial board of the journal here.

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          Current Molecular Pharmacology indexed in Science Citation Index (SCI) by Clarivate Analytics
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          Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business) has selected the Bentham Science journal Current Molecular Pharmacology for coverage in the Science Citation Index (SCI). The Science Citation Index (SCI) is a citation index originally produced by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and is made available online through different platforms, such as the Web of Science and SciSearch.

          Current Molecular Pharmacology publishes the latest developments in cellular and molecular pharmacology with a major emphasis on the mechanism of action of novel drugs under development, innovative pharmacological technologies, cell signaling, transduction pathway analysis, genomics, proteomics, and metabonomics applications to drug action.

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          Current Psychiatry Reviews journal indexed in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) by Clarivate Analytics
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          Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property & Science business) has selected the Bentham Science journal Current Psychiatry Reviews for coverage in The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). ESCI is a new index, extending the universe of publications in Web of Science to include high-quality, peer-reviewed publications of importance in emerging scientific fields.

          Current Psychiatry Reviews publishes frontier review articles and guest edited issues dedicated to clinical research on all the latest advances on clinical psychiatry and its related areas e.g. pharmacology, epidemiology, clinical care and therapy. The journal is essential reading for all clinicians, psychiatrists and researchers in psychiatry.

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          MEDLINE indexes Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology
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          Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology, an important journal published by Bentham Science, is accepted to be included in MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the U.S. National Library of Medicine® (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains more than 23 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. A distinctive feature of MEDLINE is that the records are indexed with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®). For more information, view: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html/

          Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology publishes original manuscripts, reviews, thematic issues, rapid technical notes and commentaries that provide insights into the synthesis, characterization and pharmaceutical (or diagnostic) application of materials at the nanoscale.

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          Bentham Science among Top 14 Publishers indexed in Scopus
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          Scopus recently released information about the published content hosted by the service. According to the information presented, Bentham Science is among the top 14 publishers which have their publications indexed in Scopus.

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          About Bentham Science Publishers

          Bentham Science Publishers is a major publisher of over 100 peer reviewed journals and 600 eBooks. Some of the notable Bentham Science journals that have received ISI Impact factor (IF) rankings are Current Neuropharmacology (IF 3.75) Current Cancer Drug Targets (IF 3.71), Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery, (IF 3.53), Current Medicinal Chemistry (IF 3.46) among other titles.

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