Sally Thorne

Jan 20, 2025 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sally Thorne

Frustrations on the Receiving End Subjecting your ideas to peer review always places an author in a vulnerable position, as you have no control whatsoever as to what an anonymous reviewer will say about your work. The idea of such a system is to ensure integrity within the scientific/academic literature by calling on experts to spot logical errors or misleading claims. And although peer review has always been a contested process (e.g., Emden 1996; Jasper et al.

Oct 18, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sally Thorne

As we approach the final months of 2024, it is painfully apparent that we are living in times that can be characterized by intense hostilities and atrocities across many parts of the world. We are confronted with reminders of the conflictual, aggressive, self-serving, and warmongering nature of the human species each time we open a screen or glance at a daily news report. For many of us, the realities of wars across the world hit close to our hearts and their relentlessness can be soul-destroying.

Jul 1, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sally Thorne

The rapidly expanding volume of writing about racism and bias within nursing and health care makes it clear that the idea of all nurses being nice people is unsupportable. While most nurses may harbor a deeply ingrained sense of themselves as being in service to humanity, giving of themselves for those in need, the reality of our workplaces makes it clear that we too are subject to the nastier aspects of what seem to be the human condition in this world of ours (Hutchinson & Jackson, 2015).

Apr 1, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Sally Thorne

In this editorial, I reflect on the question of the conditions under which a systematic review makes an original and relevant scholarly contribution to the literature. Like many nursing journal editors, I see many submissions based on various kinds of systematic reviews (scoping reviews, meta-synthesis studies, bibliometric analyses, etc).

Feb 29, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Barbara Pesut |Sally Thorne |Kenneth Chambaere |Margaret Hall

IntroductionAs they expand the criteria, they have to look at the needs that follow. NP13Nursing practice evolves to meet the needs of an ever more complex patient population and healthcare system. Generally, nursing practice calibrates over time to meet these emerging needs. However, significant technological or legal developments present disruptions that have the potential to change the ways in which nurses practice with far-reaching consequences.