Critical Care Nurse
Last updated ISSN 0279-5442
Critical Care Nurse is published by American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in health professions. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Critical Care Nurse concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Respiratory Support and Mechanisms
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Disaster Response and Management
- Nosocomial Infections in ICU
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
Key facts
| Publisher | American Association of Critical-Care Nurses |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0279-5442, 1940-8250 |
| Subject area | Health Professions |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,768 |
| Publishing since | 1979 |
| Journal website | galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HWRC?locIC=locml_main |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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