Spotlight on cardiac critical care and early mobilisation

Abstract

Welcome to the third issue of Nursing in Critical Care for this year. In this issue, we cast a spotlight on cardiac intensive care nursing, early mobilization and other clinically relevant topics, which should be of interest to critical care nurses in various settings. Again, the number of submissions to the journal remained high; therefore, the number of papers published is also high and we included 21 papers in this issue.Many of the papers are primarily quantitative in nature, including surveys, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and scale validation, so we hope our guest editorial from the first issue of this year 1 will help make sense of the statistical results. Nonetheless, the issue also includes a selection of qualitative studies focussing on the experiences of patients, their family and their care providers.We open this issue with commentary papers on two topical issues. In their guest editorial, McEvoy and Tume 2 discuss the importance and implications of undertaking peer reviews for critical care nursing journals, whereas the critical commentary by Sumner and Macwan 3 examines the role of registered nursing associates in critical care. We hope that these papers provide food for thought, and that the first one encourages you to consider becoming a peer reviewer for this and other critical care journals.