The Center for Research & Innovation in Patient Care

Publications

Online Journal of Clinical Innovations™ (OJCI)

Co-Founding Editors

Nancy Donaldson, the Center's Director, and Dana Rutledge, RN, PhD, are the Founding Co-Editors of the Online Journal of Clinical Innovations™ (OJCI) published by Cinahl Information Systems. The journal was developed to provide up-to-date access to research reports and innovation implementation from conferences and communication with investigators and clinicians.

In their article, Expediting the Harvest and Transfer of Knowledge for Practice in Nursing: Catalyst for a Journal (1998, OJCI, ) Donaldson and Rutledge write in detail about the importance of transferring knowledge-based innovation into practice. The article is available at no charge on the OJCI site as an Acrobat PDF file, and Cinahn has kindly granted permission for the file to be made available on this site also where it can be viewed, printed and/or downloaded. Go to article in PDF.

Accessing OJCI

OJCI can be directly accessed online at http://www.cinahl.com/cexpress/ojcionline3/index.html or accessed via the CINAHL Information Systems website at http://www.cinahl.com (select the express link and then Journals Available Online). Summaries of all OJCI articles are available at no charge as are the full text of selected articles. Other articles are available for purchase through CINAHL.

Uniqueness of OJCI

The uniqueness of OJCI is summarized by its Managing Editor, Diane S. Pravikoff, RN, PhD, as follows: "The topics covered are clinically relevant and each article, with the exception of the knowledge utilization paper and the editorial, is accompanied by a summary. This summary is the key link to the CINAHL bibliographic database as it is indexed and is searchable as any other article would be. Never before has the published literature complemented the bibliographic database so well. The summary provides users of the CINAHL database genuinely useful information on the spot. Generally three to four pages in length plus a full list of references from the complete article, the summaries contain information designed to stimulate thought and problem solving in the clinical setting. Readers can use the information as a starting point in developing their own programs and interventions, adapted to their own clinical situation."