Peer Review

Facilitate quality-nursing care through best practice discovered in evidence-based research. According to the American Nurses Association, “peer review in nursing is the process by which practicing registered nurses systematically access, monitor, and make judgments about the quality of nursing care provided by peers as measured against professional standards of practice. Peer review implies that the nursing care delivered by a group of nurses or an individual nurse is evaluated by individuals of the same rank or standing according to established standards of practice.” Peer review helps not only the author but the reviewer as well through the development of a critical eye which can then be applied to their own work.