Os Editores de Revistas Científicas de Enfermagem Brasileiras e o compromisso da ABEn

Abstract

Rev Bras Enferm 2005 nov-dez; 58(6):631-3. 632The development of the Brazilian Nursing and its consolidation as a science requires the production of knowledge in an intense and systematized manner as well as its communication to society. Thus, to effectively attend to nurses' demand in researches, both in academic or practice levels, special attention must be given to the communication media about this knowledge.The Brazilian Nursing Association (ABEn) throughout its Publishing Committee has adressed efforts in order to offer updated and relevant information through letters, a journal of international quality, a press that allows the publishing of any matter and in congregating Editors of Brazilian Nursing Journlas in annual meetings during events like the SENPE (National Semminar of Nursing Research) and CBEn (Brazilian Nursing Congress). That effort has resulted in quality improvement by these journals and in editors' awareness related to their responsabilities in the dissemination of these knowledge. During the 13th SENPE carried out last June, in São Luís, editors of twenty nursing journals were joined and proposed the creation to the National Forum of Nursing Journals Editors, legalizing the participation of the journals they represent. Thus, during the last Brazilian Nursing Congress, the initial meeting was accomplished with this name. A regimental proposal was discussed and is under preparation, it also was elected a head committee to attend the forum demands, always under the coordination of ABEn through its Publishing and Social Communication Committee.Those meetings are always of great relevance because in them common difficulties are discussed, experiences are exchanged, and more than this, a relationship network is created, something that currently is essential in personal and in job relations.