Shaping the Future: Empowering Tomorrow’s Nurse Anesthesiology Leaders and Innovators
Our mission is to empower the next generation of nurse anesthesiology professionals by championing innovation and fostering an environment where excellence and compassion drive transformative patient care. We are dedicated to leading the future of nurse anesthesiology through visionary leadership, forward-thinking values, and a steadfast commitment to advancing the profession.
About the Editor-in-Chief
The Journal for Nursing Innovation® is led by Allison S. Jones, DNAP, MSN, CRNA, APRN a doctoral prepared nurse anesthetist, nurse scientist, and healthcare innovator whose work reflects a steadfast commitment to advancing nursing through scholarship, leadership, and purpose driven innovation. With more than a decade of high acuity clinical experience across outpatient and rural healthcare systems, Dr. Jones brings a practice-informed and evidence-driven perspective to the journal’s mission.
Throughout her career, Dr. Jones has been dedicated to elevating nurse-led research and creating meaningful pathways for emerging scholars to disseminate doctoral and practice-based work. Her leadership bridges clinical excellence, academic rigor, and innovation, ensuring that scholarship remains relevant, accessible, and impactful. As an educator, mentor, and journal founder, she is deeply committed to supporting Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists and early career nurses as they develop their scholarly voice and professional identity.
The vision for the Journal for Nursing Innovation® is rooted in the belief that nursing advances when inquiry is encouraged, innovation is shared, and scholarly work is valued as a cornerstone of professional practice. Under Dr. Jones’s leadership, the journal serves as a platform for nurse scholars at all stages to contribute to the evidence that shapes the future of care.
“When nurses publish,
practice evolves.”
Dr. Allison S. Jones
Allison S Jones, PhD-C, DNAP, MSN, CRNA, APRN, CNE
Editor-in-Chief, Journal for Nursing Innovation®
Aims & Scope
The Journal for Nursing Innovation® is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal dedicated to advancing nursing science, education, and clinical practice through the dissemination of innovative, practice-relevant scholarship. The journal serves as a national platform for nurse scholars, clinicians, educators, and leaders to share original work that strengthens patient safety, healthcare quality, and the future of the nursing profession.
The journal’s primary aim is to elevate and disseminate doctoral-level and practice-based nursing scholarship, with a particular emphasis on Student Registered Nurse Anesthetist (SRNA) and advanced practice nursing doctoral projects. By providing a rigorous yet supportive peer-review process, the Journal for Nursing Innovation® bridges the gap between scholarly inquiry and real-world application.
Scope of the Journal Includes, but Is Not Limited To:
- Doctoral scholarly projects, dissertations, and practice improvement initiatives
- Clinical innovation and quality improvement in nursing and advanced practice roles
- Nurse anesthesiology, perioperative care, and patient safety research
- Nursing education innovation, curriculum development, and competency assessment
- Health technology, informatics, artificial intelligence, and digital health tools
- Implementation science, translational research, and evidence-based practice
- Workforce development, leadership, and professional role advancement
- Policy, regulation, and systems-level innovation impacting nursing practice
The Journal for Nursing Innovation® welcomes original research, scholarly reviews, quality improvement reports, innovation briefs, educational innovations, and methodological papers. Content is published in an interactive, user-friendly digital format that supports multimedia, embedded resources, and broad dissemination.
Through open-access publication, the Journal for Nursing Innovation® promotes global visibility, ethical scholarship, and inclusive knowledge sharing, ensuring that innovative nursing work is accessible, citable, and impactful across clinical, academic, and policy settings.
About the Foundation for Nursing Innovation
The Foundation for Nursing Innovation is a nonprofit organization founded on a simple but powerful belief: when nurses are equipped with the resources, mentorship, and platforms they deserve, they transform healthcare for everyone.
As the largest and most trusted segment of the healthcare workforce, nurses are uniquely positioned to identify gaps in care, design practical solutions, and lead meaningful change. Yet too often, nurse-led ideas, research, and innovations lack the funding, visibility, and infrastructure needed to reach their full potential. This foundation exists to change that reality.
Our vision is to cultivate a future where nurse innovators, scholars, and leaders, particularly those in practice-based, doctoral, and early-career roles, are empowered to advance evidence, develop technology, improve systems, and disseminate their work at scale. Through scholarships, research dissemination, educational programming, and innovation-focused initiatives, we invest directly in the people closest to patient care and system improvement.
Philanthropic support fuels this mission. Every contribution supports nurse-led scholarship, strengthens the nursing workforce, and accelerates solutions that improve safety, access, equity, and outcomes across healthcare settings. Donor partnership enables us to elevate voices that might otherwise go unheard and to translate ideas into real-world impact.
The Foundation for Nursing Innovation is committed to transparency, stewardship, and measurable outcomes. Together with our donors, collaborators, and community partners, we are building a sustainable pipeline of nurse-led innovation that shapes the future of healthcare—grounded in science, guided by compassion, and driven by purpose.
This is an investment not only in nursing, but in the health of communities, systems, and generations to come.
