Northeast Institute for Evidence Synthesis and Translation (NEST) at Rutgers School of Nursing
A Center of Excellence of the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI)
Research Initiatives
NEST believes that safe and quality practice involves knowledge synthesis that
concentrates on all best available evidence to assist practitioners and decisionmakers in care delivery. Its approach embodies the scholarship of integration, which gives meaning to isolated facts and puts them in perspective. .
Today, NEST has generated a total of 33 systematic reviews including:
- Thirty four publications by the three core faculty in refereed journals
- Three published textbooks
- A AJN Book of the Year Award for the work entitled Comprehensive
Systematic Review for Advanced Nursing Practice (Holly, Salmond, Saimbert)
- Three published book chapters in texts of evidence-based care
- Thirty national and international presentations specific to the work of
NEST and comprehensive systematic review
The center has received the following awards to date: