Teaching and Learning in Nursing Call for Papers & Special Issue Announcement: The ANA’s New Code of Ethics for Nurses

We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication in July of 2027 of a special issue on the 2025 ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses. We are interested in manuscripts on a wide range of issues that address all 10 provisions of the 2025 ANA Code, in addition to practical applications, controversial commentary, and relevance for the today’s healthcare environment.

We welcome manuscripts that include empirical research, discursive writings and commentary that encompasses issues in nursing education, regulation and practice. In addition, we welcome manuscripts that address systems issues in ethics that relate to the 2025 Code.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Specific application of each of the 10 provisions of the ANA Code
• Health equity and its place within the ANA Code
• How the ANA Code was developed
• Innovative perspectives with the 2025 Code of Ethics
• Relationship of the ANA Code with other health care professional codes
• Strategies for teaching the ANA Code of Ethics to pre-licensure students
• The place of the ANA Code of Ethics in coaching pre-licensure students
• The role of the ANA Code of Ethics in disciplinary actions with nursing students
• Considerations for the next revision of the ANA Code of Ethics
• The impact of ethics on nursing practice (address the Code)
• Teaching Learning technologies (including AI) when teaching ethics using the ANA Code of Ethics

We welcome research, innovative practice manuscripts, literature reviews, and theoretical papers. Authors can include links to websites, applications, or demonstrations; videos up to 3 minutes; audio files; and photos, forms, documents, or figures that illustrate the text.

This issue is guest edited by Nelda Godfrey, PhD, ACNS-BC, RN, FAAN, ANEF

Nelda Godfrey is Professor, Professional Practice, and Director, Nursing Career Success, Identity and Innovation at the Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.  A thought leader in nursing innovation and nursing education, Dr. Godfrey writes often on new care delivery models that can be influenced by a stronger emphasis on the nurse within—researching and developing strategies to create the whole person experience in nursing practice going forward. Her work with the International Society for Professional Identity in Nursing is transforming the way nurses, health care professionals and society understanding what it means to “think, act and feel like a nurse.”  This work offers new language and new knowledge for the journey—helping nurses heal, flourish and expertly care for others.

Dr. Godfrey received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Missouri, her Masters in Nursing and credential as a Clinical Nurse Specialist from the University of Kansas Medical Center, and her PhD in Nursing with an emphasis in ethics from the University of Missouri.  Scholarly accomplishments include seminal work in professional identity in nursing and implementing the AACN Essentials: Core Competencies for Professional Nursing Education.  Programmatic achievements include creating the Kansas University Community College Nursing Program (KUCCNP) in which community college students dually enroll in their community college and KU simultaneously, allowing them to graduate with an associate degree in nursing and a bachelor of science in nursing at the same time.  Dr. Godfrey serves on the American Nurses Association Ethics and Human Rights Advisory Board and is formerly one of two co-leads for the Missouri Action Coalition supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Submission Deadline: March 20, 2027

Learn more about how to submit a manuscript to Teaching and Learning in Nursing on the journal landing page.