Evidence-Based Nursing (EBN) is a current awareness website and quarterly journal published by the British Medical Journal. Each week a wide range of medical journals are screened and the two best articles, according to quality and validity criteria, relevant to nursing are chosen for review and comment. We are looking for nurses or related allied health professionals who are interested in writing an occasional commentary on chosen articles in their specialist field.

Commentaries will be around 700 words and aim to discuss the context of the problem addressed by the paper (epidemiology, history etc), to provide a brief description and critique of the methods, results and conclusions of the article, along with the clinical and nursing implications for practice, and how the results fit in with what is currently known in the field. The turn-around time for a commentary is about three weeks. Commentaries for EBN are indexed in PubMed/Medline (you will be the published author), and they provide an opportunity to appraise and critically comment on articles that are highly relevant to the nursing field.

We are looking to create a directory of potential commentators along with details of their specialist interests. If you would like to be on this list, please contact us. By responding to this call, you are not committing yourself to writing commentaries immediately; instead we will contact you when a suitable article is chosen and allow you 'first refusal'.

If you are interested in being a commentator for EBN, or if you just have any questions, then please contact the content editor, Alan Lovell, at alan.lovell@bazian.com.

Website: http://ebn.bmj.com