Abstract
Following are reports on papers presented at the National Congress on the State of the Science in Nursing Research in October of 2004. The conference was sponsored by the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science and the National Institute of Nursing Research. These research reports were compiled by Dr. Linda Flynn, Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, and Associate Director, Research, of the New Jersey Collaborating Center for Nursing. As an editorial board member, Dr. Flynn represented the journal at the conference.