Biblioteca Virtual en Salud Enfermería

Last 13 December 2024 the awards ceremony for the Chair of Family and Community Nursing was held by Universidad de Alicante (Spain). This organization’s director, Doctor José Ramón Martínez-Riera, addressed the following words to the public when recognizing the journal Investigación y Educación en Enfermería for its support to the scientific development of family and community nursing: “The stimulus, support, and implication of organizations or institutions and those who represent them, are essential for the development and consolidation of Nursing through the dissemination of its research, projects, or experiences. As a scientific discipline, Nursing requires the contribution and dissemination and projection of its findings to both the scientific community and society at large. Beyond the researchers and the academic institutions or the scientific societies to which they belong, there are the scientific publications that, with the effort, perseverance, will, and attitude of those who direct and promote them can survive within a complex competitive environment, not always fair, of market and business, placing the criteria of quality, excellence, and contribution to Nursing above the business it represents for others. This is the case of the journal Investigación y Educación en Enfermería from the Faculty of Nursing at Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia and in a very special way of the person who has been and continues to be the architect of its development. Dr. María de los Ángeles Rodríguez-Gázquez has been one of the pioneers in constituting a publication of these characteristics as a reference for nursing science and for this reason, the Chair of Family and Community Nursing wishes to recognize the journal Investigación y Educación en Enfermería.”