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JMIR Nursing

Virtualizing care from hospital to community: Mobile health, telehealth, and digital patient care.

Editor-in-Chief:

Elizabeth Borycki, RN, PhD, FIAHIS, FACMI, FCAHS, Social Dimensions of Health Program Director, Health and Society Program Director, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies; Professor, School of Health Information Science, University of Victoria, Canada


Impact Factor 5.0 More information about Impact Factor CiteScore 5.9 More information about CiteScore

JMIR Nursing (JN, ISSN 2562-7600) is a peer-reviewed journal for nursing in the 21st century. The focus of this journal is original research related to the paradigm change in nursing due to information technology and the shift towards preventative, predictive, personal medicine:

"In the 21st century the whole foundations of health care are being shaken. Technology is taking service to new heights of portability: less invasive, short-term, and with greater impact on both the length and quality of life. (...)

Time-based nursing care with the activities of bathing, treating, changing, feeding, intervening, drugging, and discharging are quickly becoming historic references to an age of practice that no longer exists. Now the challenge for nursing practice skills relates more to taking on the activities of accessing, informing, guiding, teaching, counseling, typing, and linking. "

(Tim Porter-O'Brady, Nurs Outlook 2001;49:182-6)

JMIR Nursing is indexed in National Library of Medicine (NLM)/MEDLINE, PubMed, PubMed Central, DOAJ, Scopus, Sherpa Romeo, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Web of Science™ (ESCI), and the International Academy of Nursing Editors (INANE) directory of nursing journals.

JMIR Nursing received a 2025 Impact Factor of 5.0, ranking Q1 in Nursing (8/194). 

JMIR Nursing received a Scopus CiteScore of 5.9 (2025), placing it in the 90th percentile (14/144) as a first quartile (Q1) journal in the field of General Nursing. 

Recent Articles

Woman pushing an elderly person in a wheelchair through a grassy field at sunset
Nursing in a Long-Term Care Facility / Nursing Home for the Elderly

Training programs help dementia care staff handle residents’ behavioral symptoms in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. However, it is unclear how feeling well-prepared from such training relates to experiences of physical and verbal aggression from residents.

Nurse in scrubs and mask looking out hospital window
Reviews in Nursing

Nurses are pivotal as end users and implementers of digital mental health interventions (DMHIs). However, the successful translation of efficacious DMHIs into sustainable nursing practice is hindered by multifaceted implementation challenges.

Nurse administering medication to elderly patient in hospital room
Nursing in a Hospital Setting

Medical errors occur more frequently in health care than in other industries due to challenges in patient safety education for nurses and students. To address this, it is important to identify the factors and structures underlying clinical errors and apply these insights to educational programs. Medication-related errors are highly preventable with appropriate interventions, highlighting the importance of data-driven safety education. Previous research suggests that unit adaptation, rather than clinical experience alone, plays a critical role in error occurrence. Focusing on “adaptive performance,” an underexplored concept in nursing, can help identify new educational strategies and interventions.

Nurse shows a patient a medical app on a smartphone in a hospital room.
Mobile Apps for Nurses

Mobile health (mHealth) technology offers new approaches to improve women’s health by providing personalized monitoring and real-time guidance. As one of the most widely used social media platforms in China, WeChat has shown great potential in mHealth practice, yet systematic evidence on its application in women’s health care remains insufficient.

Nurse at computer in hospital, viewing patient schedule on screen
Nursing in a Hospital Setting

Inequitable and time-consuming shift scheduling contributes to nurse burnout, dissatisfaction, and turnover. In Taiwan, annual nurse turnover reaches 11.6%, with rigid 3-shift systems and unfair workload distribution frequently cited as key drivers. Although artificial intelligence (AI) scheduling tools exist, most lack transparency and do not formally address algorithmic bias, limiting clinical adoption.

Infographic: Screen-based simulation videos improve nursing learning, EEG modulation.
Nursing Education and Training

Screen-based 360° contextual simulation videos are increasingly being used in nursing education; however, evidence regarding their effects on learning outcomes and neural electroencephalography (EEG) patterns remains limited.

Nurse using tablet in hospital with patient in bed and digital icons
Reviews in Nursing

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly used in clinical settings, yet most syntheses focus on nurses’ attitudes or readiness rather than experiences after direct use in practice.

Three medical professionals smiling while looking at a tablet
Nursing Education and Training

With the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and its deep integration into nursing education, nursing students’ AI literacy (AS) has become a critical competency for their professional development. However, the patterns of associations among emotional intelligence (EI), AI self-efficacy (AILS), and AS in relation to comprehensive AS remain unclear.

Nurses and doctors in blue scrubs reviewing information on a tablet
Nursing Education and Training

Nursing students are the future workforce, and their readiness to use digital health tools is important. Previous studies have focused on knowledge and attitudes; however, they have not examined the wide range of digital health literacy levels that may influence nursing students’ attitudes toward using telehealth in clinical settings.

Nurse in blue scrubs using a tablet in a modern medical facility.
Nursing Education and Training

The rapid advancement of digital technologies, combined with the evolving complexity of health care environments, has introduced a new paradigm in nursing practice. Clinical nurses are now required not only to deliver safe and effective patient care but also to demonstrate competencies in digital literacy and innovation. Among these emerging competencies, digital leadership has become a critical attribute—enabling nurses to lead digital transformation, ensure patient safety, enhance care quality, and support system-level change within health care organizations. Despite its increasing relevance, there is a notable absence of validated measurement tools tailored to assess digital leadership in clinical practice.

Man's hands holding a smartphone with a watch on his wrist
Nursing and Care for Patients with Infectious or Chronic Conditions

Pressure injuries (PIs) are a common complication in people with reduced mobility or sensation and can be burdensome for individuals with PIs and their caregivers. Valuable insights and real-world challenges faced by individuals living with PIs can be captured through candid accounts posted on social media. Social media listening (SML) is a tool that can enhance the understanding of those with lived experience by offering firsthand accounts that are irreproducible from controlled studies.

Nurse using computer in hospital room with patient in background
Nursing Records

Nurse turnover remains a major challenge for health systems, yet objective, scalable measures of workload that predict turnover are limited. Electronic health record (EHR) audit logs offer a potential data source to quantify nursing work patterns.

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