Nursing Journal Clubs: A Strategy for Improving Knowledge Translation and Evidenced-informed Clinical Practice Invited Manuscript for the Journal of Radiology Nursing

Providing the best care for patients requires commitment to competence acquired through continuing professional education. Remaining current has never been more challenging as we are living in a time of unprecedented information growth and availability. A journal club is a meeting of colleagues designed to promote collaborative knowledge construction by critically discussing practice relevant articles appearing in professional journals. Well-designed journal clubs provide an engaging lifelong learning strategy that can accomplish grassroots knowledge translation (KT) by gathering nurses together over a meal and debating the merits and relevance of recent research. This article provides a brief description of the journal club, situates this educational strategy within current KT theory and evidence-based literature, and also provides practical guidelines for starting a nursing journal club.