Nursing Reports (ISSN 2039-4403) provides an opportunity to nurse researchers and scholars to make a unique and important contribution to nursing and the broader health care community by addressing topics, theories and issues that concern the discipline of nursing, including research, practice, policy and education. The journal publishes reviews, experimental and observational research papers, registered reports, brief communications, editorials, critical debates and protocols. Special Issues focused on topics of particular relevance and importance to the discipline are also published. The aim of Nursing Reports is to influence the art and science of nursing by making rigorously conducted research accessible and understood to the full spectrum of practicing nurses, academics, educators and interested members of the public. The journal has no restrictions regarding the maximum length of papers. Papers published in Nursing Reports are to adhere to the relevant reporting guidelines.