Initiatives
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, was one of the first organizations to fund nursing research in the United States, awarding a $600 grant to Alice Crist Malone in 1936. With its chapters and grant partners (corporations, associations and foundations) the society contributes more than $650,000 annually to nursing research through grants, scholarships and monetary awards. More than 250 research-oriented educational programs are sponsored or co-sponsored annually by Sigma Theta Tau International in the U.S. and internationally.
The society’s publishing arm produces two scholarly journals and numerous other publications designed to fulfill the society’s mission of disseminating nursing knowledge:
The Journal of Nursing Scholarship is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal in nursing with a global circulation of 125,000 published on behalf of the Society by Blackwell Publishing.
Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal that connects best evidence to best practice applications for clinical practice, nursing administration, nursing education and public health care policy. Published on behalf of the Society by Blackwell Publishing.
Sigma Theta Tau International also has a nursing research repository, the Virginia Henderson International Nursing Library - which offers nurses FREE access to reliable nursing research and evidence-based knowledge.
The society's continuing dedication to nursing scholarship offers nursing faculty and universities with schools of nursing membership in the International Academic Nursing Alliance - a free online global community for academic faculty to share information, resources, research, interests and teaching/collaborative opportunities.
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