| Critical Care Nurse | |
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| Abbreviation: | Crit. Care Nurse |
| Discipline: | Critical care nursing |
| Editor: | Annette Bourgault |
| Publisher: | American Association of Critical-Care Nurses |
| History: | 1981–present |
| Frequency: | Bimonthly |
| Impact: | 1.707 |
| Impact-Year: | 2017 |
| Issn: | 0279-5442 |
| Eissn: | 1940-8250 |
| Coden: | CCNUEV |
| Oclc: | 802716971 |
| Website: | http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/ |
| Link1: | http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/content/current |
| Link1-Name: | Online access |
| Link2: | http://ccn.aacnjournals.org/content/by/year |
| Link2-Name: | Online archive |
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.[1] Its current editor-in-chief is Annette Bourgault (University of Central Florida).
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:[2] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2017 impact factor of 1.707.[3]