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When the Journal of Forensic Nursing was conceptualized, and later, came into existence, it was a foundational goal of the editorial board to provide to the IAFN membership, and to other interdisciplinary scholarly readers, manuscripts that provided important information related to assessment and intervention with offenders and survivors of interpersonal violence and other crimes. In order to meet this goal, it was important, if not necessary, to provide articles involving theory, research, and practice; in essence, it was important to recognize that there is room for all three of these approaches, that no one of them is more or less important than the other, and that they are actually inherently and uniquely intertwined (Clements & Sekula, 2005). Further, in light of the overarching mandates for evidence-based practice and outcome measures, it was just as important to recognize that any statistics, numbers, and measures are only as important as the ability to translate them into safe, effective, and comprehensive practice (Clements & Crane, 2006). Further, it needed to be stressed that clinical and anecdotal issues from the practice setting should be providing researchers with fertile ground for investigation, and, conversely, that research data are only as “good” as the ability to provide guidance for enhancing forensic nursing practice. Specifically, “The challenge is for those of us who are immersed in research to hand off to busy clinicians information in a form that they can carry forward and use in daily practice” (Sirovatka, 2005, p. 17).
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So, with the push toward evidence-based practice, scholarly research, and empirical measure of the healthcare we provide, there are many questions that can be asked regarding the significance and usefulness of research articles. Several comprehensive approaches are provided as Additional Resources on page—; however, for the purposes of this effort, we want to focus on (and hopefully streamline) questions that can maximize reading, understanding, and utilization of manuscripts to ultimately enhance forensic practice.
