I am so very proud of my #Twitter friend & nursing colleague, Melanie Rogers, MPH, RN. She is making international waves with her “No Journals, No Evidence-Based Practice” movement, otherwise known as #NoJournalsNoEBP. The idea came from a middle of the night #TwitterRant when Melanie shared her frustration with no longer having access to her beloved university library system after she graduated.
Melanie works in public health nursing and often serves as a practicum preceptor for nursing students. She became frustrated without having access to current journals or the ability to do research in her areas of practice. Her valid argument was shared on Twitter and the response has been sweeping and international.
I invited Melanie to write about the #NoJournalsNoEBP initiative through several blog posts on the Relentless School Nurse. The initial blog post was in March of 2019 and there have been two updates that documented the response to the movement and some innovative initiatives happening across the country that address access to journals. She also received responses from the U.K. and Australia just to name a few countries.
In the past few days Melanie has published two Op-Eds that document her journey. Here are links to both of the them, which, in keeping with the theme of #NoJournalsNoEBP, are both open access!
Published by Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN, FNASN, FAAN, is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 22nd year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Director for New Jersey to the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) Board. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past Program Mentor. Robin is the honored recipient of multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. These awards include, 2019 and 2020 National Association of School Nurses President’s Award, 2018 NCSN School Nurse of the Year, 2017 Johnson & Johnson School Nurse of the Year, and the New Jersey Department of Health 2017 Population Health Hero Award. Robin serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing, where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. She was presented the 2018 Rutgers University – Camden Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty. Robin writes a weekly blog called The Relentless School Nurse. She also writes a monthly column in My American Nurse, the official journal of the American Nurses Association. Robin’s work is included as a case study in The Future of Nursing Report 2020-2030. You can follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.
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