Editorial: My Last Year as Editor of the WJNR
Abstract
Editorial My Last Year as Editor of the WJNR Last year, 2006, was my last year as editor of the WJNR. When I started the journal 29 years ago, I had no clear vision of where I wanted the journal to go, or what I wanted it to be, other than an alternative publica- tion to Nursing Research (RINAH had not yet come out at the time). I knew nursing needed another research journal, and I believed it needed a place where qualitative research could be published. I also thought there needed to be a place for research dialogue--commentaries on papers and rebuttals by authors--an open forum, if you will, that would allow discussion of issues and alternative points of view. At the same time, I believed we were still in our research infancy. We had few doctoral programs in nursing; most doctoral-prepared nurses received their research training and degrees in other fields. We had no single research design that was our own; we bor- rowed and adapted from every one. We had much to learn. We were creat- ing new fields of study, such as transcultural nursing, trying to bring together the knowledge and expertise of the