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From the Editor

Welcome to MCN’s new updated website!  If you subscribe to MCN, you have full access to the website.  I’m excited  to tell you what we’re now able to offer.  Here's some of the things you'll find:

  • How to become a peer reviewer for MCN
  • How to get published in MCN
  • Winners of MCN Paper of the Year Awards 
  • Articles which have not been in print yet, but are only on the website, called Publish Ahead of Print.
  • Information on interesting articles coming up in future issues.
  • How to develop collections of your favorite articles
  • A way to email your favorite MCN articles to your colleagues
  • An easy way to export references to citation manager software
  • Using the tables or figures in MCN articles as power point slides, with just the click of your mouse!

There are many other options as well. I hope you'll start using the new website, and feel free to contact me about your favorite features! 

Margaret Comerford Freda, Editor

margaretfreda@yahoo.com

 

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Current Issue: May/June 2013 - Volume 38 - Issue 3

Editor-in-Chief:
Margaret Comerford Freda

ISSN: 0361-929X

Online ISSN: 1539-0683

Frequency: 6 issues / year

Ranking: Nursing 28/95

Impact Factor: 1.123

Winners of the MCN Papers of the Year Award

Running list of all winners of MCN
Paper of the Year awards

2012 MCN Practice Paper of the Year
Beginning at the Bottom: Evidence Based Care of Diaper Dermatitis
Published in MCN volume 37, no. 1

Authors: Heimell, L, Storey B, Stellar J, Davis KF   

2012 MCN Research Paper of the Year
Activity Level During a One Hour Labor Check Evaluation: Walking vs. Bedrest
Published in MCN volume 37, no. 2
 
Authors:  Selby, C, Valencia, S, Garcia, L, Keep, D, Oversash, J, Jackson, J.  

NEW FREE Content on MCN!

MCN is now offering some exciting and important articles as "Published Ahead of Print" (PAP). Every 2 months MCN's website will contain additional PAP articles, free to you as the reader, which are on the website months before they will appear in printed form. 

COMING SOON!

Future issues of MCN will contain full length articles on the following topics and others:

  • Recovering from Postpartum Depression
  • Mothers' Knowledge about Newborn Screening
  • Chorioamnionitis: Prevention and Management
  • Reducing Stereotyping of Teen Mothers
  • Barriers to Breastfeeding
  • Hazards of Supplemental Oxygen Therapy in Neonates
  • Strategies to Increase Milk Volume in Mothers of VLBW Infants
  • Current Evidence for Maternal Depression and Infant Development
  • Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia
Want to Be a Published Author in MCN?

Tips on Getting Published in MCN

Perhaps you would like to have an article published in MCN, but you’re new at the process, and not sure where to start.  Here are a few tips on how to begin. Read more...

How to Become a Peer Reviewer in MCN

MCN is always interested in hearing from qualified peer reviewers who want to read and critique submitted manuscripts for our journal.  If you are a loyal reader of MCN and other nursing literature, and you are currently practicing in one of the maternal child nursing specialties (perinatal, neonatal, midwifery, pediatrics), I’d like to suggest that some of you could actually contribute to the journal. Read more...