Current Resources for Evidence-Based Practice, January/February 2018.

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to high-quality evidence on the effects of health care treatments. In the spring of 2009, the Cochrane Collaboration created a new international network specific to the field of nursing, bringing the total number of Cochrane networks to 16. Cochrane networks are interest groups that provide support for the development and uptake of systematic reviews relevant to a specific field of health care or clinical area. The Cochrane Nursing Care Network (CNCN) is coordinated by a central team at the Joanna Briggs Institute of the University of Adelaide, Australia. Five ‘‘nodes’’ spread around the globe each take primary responsibility for a different aspect of the Network’s overall mission to improve health outcomes of nursing care, and seven regional spokes translate and carry forward the work of the CNCN in their area of the world. The CNCN defines nursing care and caregivers broadly. Nursing care comprises all care and services ‘‘essential to, or helpful in, the promotion, maintenance, or restoration of health and well-being or in the prevention of disease,’’ and caregivers include professionals, paraprofessionals, and lay care providers. As such, the focus of this network is also relevant to midwives, whether they are nurses or not. The purpose of the CNCN is to identify priority topics relevant to nursing care, support and carry out new Cochrane systematic reviews, and contribute to their dissemination and uptake within the large population of professionals and lay persons who provide nursing care worldwide. The group hopes to raise awareness within the global nursing care community of the wide range of evidence-based resources available through the Cochrane Collaboration and to be sure that nursing care perspectives and priorities are adequately reflected in the organization’s work. Specific node activities include: identifying priority topics for new Cochrane reviews (Scottish node); mentoring new review authors (Celtic node); coordinating the activities of the regional network offices and searching the primary literature, especially non-English sources