With today's advanced technology, the World Wide Web has accelerated the exchange of information to reach nearly warp-speed results. Information is instantly available at our fingertips with the touch of a button on a computer or cell-phone keyboard. At times, the immense quantity of information related to healthcare in general, and nursing specifically, can be overwhelming. The hunter and gatherer of useful, timely, and clinically relevant information must sift through layers of Web sites, advertisements, and just plain litter strewn all over the information superhighway.
A new way to read the journal
To streamline this gathering of information, our goal at OR Nurse 2009 is to provide you with one-stop shopping for all your online needs. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, our publisher and a Wolters Kluwer company, will soon launch a new, more personalized online interface that combines journal content and various media to enable innovative collaboration and sharing among nursing professionals. Although the site is changing, our Web address will remain the same: http://www.ORNurseJournal.com.
Bonus features
Our new site will be easy to navigate, and throughout the coming year added features will include:
* all issues of the journal from 2007 forward (all articles are free to subscribers)
* online-only text
* podcasts and videos
* blogs
* editors' picks and top picks that let you know of particularly noteworthy topics and what articles users have accessed most often
* networking opportunities, including forums that will allow you to comment on articles or discuss them with peers
* opportunities to create your own collections of articles and audiovisual extras
* the option of receiving really simple syndication (RSS) feeds and e-mailed news alerts. (RSS feeds allow you to subscribe to site updates, such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, or video, and view them all in one place.)
Check back often
These and other features will be unveiled over the coming year, so visit the site regularly and let us know what you think. And don't be surprised if the next colleague you see tapping on the keys of a BlackBerry, iPhone, or laptop is visiting the wealth of perioperative nursing information in the many new formats we offer at http://www.ORNurseJournal.com.
Elizabeth M. Thompson, RN, CNOR, MSN
Editor-in-Chief Nursing Education Specialist Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. [email protected]