The Nursing Research Challenge has contributed to my own nursing practice. I’ve searched for articles about topics of interest, trying to find solutions to issues.

It has worked. Imagine that. [Yes, that was sarcasm.] If you blog or teach nursing students who blog, join the Nursing Research Challenge!

Chances are, you’re doing the same thing – defining problems, searching the nursing literature for solutions, or writing up your own found solutions to contribute to the nursing body of knowledge and benefit others.

Storytelling is such a vital part of nursing education and culture, yet we don’t often hear stories of nurses finding and implementing nursing research to impact patient care, nursing satisfaction, or organizational processes. Until now. The American Journal of Nursing is calling for those stories. Think about what you and your colleagues are doing to implement nursing research, and be sure to share that with AJN. We’ll all learn from you, too, in the process.

And, if you don’t have any stories about how you’re using nursing research in your practice, but you do have other nursing stories to share, The New York Times invites you to contribute those to them.