El CECOVA and the Foundation Index enhance the scientific production of the Valencian Community nurse to reach a position of leadership in the short term.
put 100,000 references of the field Iberoamerican available to practitioners of nursing of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón.
Valencia, 2012-June The Nursing Council of the Valencian Community (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Alicante and Castellón have been marked as objective the autonomic nurse profession short term a position of leadership in scientific production and, in this sense, they rely on overcome soon the fifth place is the Valencian Community in the ranking of regions more investigating nursing.
According to the bibliographic database Ãndex Foundation Cuiden, nurses of the Valencian Community produced in the 2005–2009 quinquennium 10.64% of the papers published in Spain, being the fifth Spanish autonomous community with greater scientific production below AndalusiaMadrid, Catalonia and Castile – La Mancha.
Boost nurse knowledge
Therefore, thanks to the collaboration agreement between the CECOVA and the Index Foundation will develop the most strategy: moving a series of powerful resources aimed at supporting and promoting the scientific production of the nurse profession knowledge nurse to energize research projects and knowledge nurse with the availability of 25,000 nurses in the Valencian Community Autonomic.
The Chairman of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila Olivares, stressed that the Organization autonomous College of nursing of the Valencian Community thus becomes the first collegiate institution of Spain which provides for free this possibility to increase the dynamism of the knowledge in the field nurse ”.
Is a pioneering initiative in Spain that will lay the foundations for the scientific production in the Valencian Community nurse can climb positions in the national ranking ”, said Avila, who encouraged nurses to take advantage of all the new opportunities afforded them Ciberindex to improve their scientific production ”.
Nurses Collegiate School of nursing of Alicante, Castellón and Valencia have free access through the links located on the websites of each of their respective schools, to all the resources of the shelf Ciberindex, the most important nursing in the Ibero-American area database, with nearly 100,000 bibliographic references.
It should be noted that Ciberindex is a virtual space that adds knowledge that emanates in the space scientific and cultural iberoamericano and from resources to give access note Cuiden Plus, a referential database where to find extensive bibliographic references.
Creation of networks of research
Also, the CECOVA and the Ãndex Foundation will work together in the creation of networks of research nurse with common interests, providing information on aid to research resources and promoting the exchange of researchers between the two institutions.
In this sense, the collegiate of nursing of the Valencian Community will have useful resources to foster research and support their professional development, in a close, affordable and contextualized way. You will receive alerts bibliographic production in healthcare with more impact both nationally and internationally and may be ascribed to the groups of cooperative research that promotes the Foundation Index (nursing based on evidence, qualitative research, community health, history and thinking nurse).
Another of the advantages provided by this cooperation agreement lies in making available to users of Ciberindex the so-called connect program, which will be operating in a month approximately and thanks to which virtual training activities can be made to learn how to use tools such as Ciberindex and even to form in other aspects such as the way in which to develop an article, what journals might be interested in him, how to calculate the impact of a work once published, etc.
