ESSAY: What’s the difference between a scholarly and peer reviewed journal?

Using proper APA formatting, cite the peer-reviewed article you selected that pertains to your practice area and is of particular interest to you and identify the database that you used to search for the article. Explain any difficulties you experienced while searching for this article. Would this database be useful to your colleagues? Explain why or why not. Would you recommend this database? Explain why or why not.

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Scholarly journals target academic audiences because they are written by experts in a given field/ discipline. Scholarly journals are meant to share research findings, theories, and ideas, and more important to help scholars stay updated about current developments in their field or discipline (Nicholas et al., 2015).  Therefore, scholarly journalsfocus on methodology, theory, original research, and experimentation.  Peer-reviewed journals, on the other hand, meet all the criteria of scholarly journals but, before publication, the content goes through iteration and a process of feedback (Marusic, 2019). In short, the articles are reviewed by other experts/scholars in the field to …

Peer-Reviewed Article Selected

Mazanec, P., Lamb, G., Haas, S., Dahlin, C., Mooney, A., & Lafond, D. (2018). Palliative nursing summit: Nurses leading change and transforming care: The nurse’s role in coordination of care and transition management. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 20(1), 15-22. doi: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000406

Scholars have access to thousands of journals and articles related to nursing through the help of online databases such as EBSCOhost, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Joanna Briggs, SAGE, MIMS Online, and EMBASE. The reliability and credibility of research information are of great concern when searching the web. Therefore, I used CINAHL database to retrieve the selected peer-reviewed article. CINAHL provides more than 6 million peer-reviewed and evidence-based nursing journals covering more than 50 nursing specialties, general health, nutrition, medicine, and speech and language pathology. I did not experience any difficulties while searching for the article. The search was specific because I ….

CINAHL database is useful and I would recommend it to my colleagues because it has volumes of journals covering different clinical and professional topics. The database also promotes excellence research because it is simple to search and retrieve information. In addition, the clinical information published in CINAHL database is reliable because scholars adhere to the standards of journalistic integrity. There is the dissemination of original research, peer-reviewed and evidence-based clinical journals, and there is discussion of relevant …