title: Critical Care Nurse
text: # Critical Care Nurse
  
  Critical Care Nurse is a bimonthly peer-reviewed nursing journal covering research about bedside care of critically and acutely ill patients and critical and acute care nursing practice. It is published by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. The journal was established in 1981 with C. Gozensky and Penny Vaughn as its founding editors-in-chief. Its current editor-in-chief is Annette Bourgault (University of Central Florida).
  
  ## Abstracting and indexing
  
  The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
  
  * Academic Search Premier
  * CINAHL
  * Embase
  * MEDLINE
  * Science Citation Index Expanded
  * Scopus
  * Social Sciences Citation Index
  
  According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.707.
  
  