American Research Journal of Nursing is an international, peer-reviewed, open access online journal. Nursing research to provide evidence-based care that promotes quality health outcomes for individuals, families, communities and health care systems. Nurses also use research to shape health policy in direct care, within an organization, and at the local, state and federal levels.

This journal publishes research work on topics like care giving, Chronic diseases, Cognition, Geriatric care, Infant and Family care, Managed Health care, Nursing Theory, Sleep and sleep disorders, Nursing policy, etc. The journal welcomes and publishes insightful Nursing related research articles in the form of original articles, review articles, case reports, short reviews, short notes etc.

Given below are some of the key (but not limited) topics of this journal.

• Adherence to CPAP treatment in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
• Aging and Aging Health Policy
• Behavioral endocrinology with an emphasis on adolescence
• Caregiving
• Chronic Diseases
• Chronic Illness and Long-Term Care
• Clinical and health outcomes in managed care
• Cognition
• Cognition and neural correlates in adults with OSA
• Complex care issues in the health of the elderly
• Concept advancement/analysis
• CPAP dose-response and neurobehavioral outcomes in OSA
• Delirium in persons with dementia
• Delirium in persons with dementia
• Dementia behavior in the elderly
• Dementia behavior in the elderly
• Drug burden in nursing home residents with dementia
• Effects of stress, age, gender, hormones, and other factors on immunity, inflamation, and health
• Electrocardiographic Monitoring Research
• Emergency and Critical Care
• End-of-life care in complex organizations such as prison
• Families in Health and Illness
• Family support/caregivers
• Feasibility of biomarkers for predicting health outcomes
• Geriatric Care
• Geriatric nursing: informal caregiving
• Global Health
• Health and Environment
• Health attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of incarcerated and community-living older men
• Health care interactions
• Health Promotion/Illness Prevention
• Heart disease in older women
• HIV/AIDS
• Inappropriate medication use in older adults
• Infants, Children, and Families
• Inflammatory mediators of stress and cognitive aging
• Managed Health Care
• Management in home health care
• Medication adherence in the elderly
• Non pharmacological interventions for behavioral symptoms in persons with dementia
• Non pharmacological interventions for delirium in persons with dementia
• Non pharmacological interventions for the behavioral symptoms of dementia and delirium.
• Nursing Theory
• Older adults coping with multiple chronic health conditions
• Palliative Care and End of Life
• Palliative care and heart disease/critical care
• Personalized approaches to sleep disorders management
• Physiological and psychological risk factors (such as anger and depression)
• Preterm Birth Initiative
• Primary Care
• Puberty and stress: health outcomes
• Qualitative methodology
• Qualitative methods: techniques for concept analysis and advancement; theory-building strategies
• Quality of life in end of life
• Self-care in end-stage heart failure
• Sleep and Sleep Disorders
• State of uncertainty: end of life; family caregivers
• State of uncertainty: end of life; family caregivers
• State of uncertainty: end of life; family caregivers
• Symptom Management
• Tissue repair (mucosal and dermal wound healing)
• Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes interventions
• Upstreaming paliative care
• Women`s Health Issues