About Intensiv

Intensiv

Intensiv is the German specialist journal for intensive-care and anesthesia nursing, published by the renowned Georg Thieme Verlag in Stuttgart for the nursing professionals of the critical care. Appearing six times per year since 1992, the journal provides the well-founded specialist knowledge for the intensive-care and anesthesia nurses: the guidelines, the trends, and the practice contributions from the leading clinics in the German-speaking world. As the organ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fachkrankenpflege und Funktionsdienste (DGF), it serves the nursing staff of the intensive-care units, their ward managers, and the nursing directors with the profession's voice.

Overview

Intensiv appears bi-monthly as the intensive-care nursing journal: the medium for the ICU and anesthesia nurses who care for the critically ill, the ward managers (Stationsleitungen) of the intensive-care units who lead the teams, and the nursing directors (Pflegedienstleitungen) who shape the care. The editorial program delivers the practice-oriented specialist articles from the leading intensive-care units and anesthesia departments in the DACH region; the current topics in focus with the trends, the guidelines, and the DGF's professional-policy information; and the nursing-science content with the transfer into the ward everyday and the journal club summarizing and classifying the current studies. The continuing education provides the CNE points (Certified Nursing Education): 18 per year, supporting the nurses' required professional development.

The journal's hybrid publication model combines the print with the online: the 357,000 total uses per year document the digital reach, and all issues since 2000 are available in the Thieme E-Journals. The print run of around 3,200 copies reaches the nursing professionals in the DACH region's leading clinics.

The ICU Nurses' World

The intensive-care nurses that the intensiv serves work in the medicine's most demanding environment: the intensive-care units where the critically ill fight for their lives, where the ventilators breathe for the patients, and where the monitors' alarms structure the shifts. The nurses' work combines the routine skills with the complex thinking: the practiced hand movements of the cannulation and the critical judgment of the deteriorating patient, the technological mastery of the devices and the human compassion for the families.

The journal speaks to this world: the articles respect the nurses' expertise, the practice contributions come from the leading units' colleagues, and the nursing science is prepared for the ward everyday, not the academic seminar. The pandemic's ICU spotlight showed the public what the nurses always knew: the intensive-care nursing is the medicine's backbone, and the journal has served this backbone since 1992. In the nursing shortage where the ICU nurses are most scarce, the journal tells them that their specialty matters: the medium for the professionals who care for the critically ill, written by those who understand.

History

Intensiv's history begins in 1992: the Thieme publishing group created the dedicated journal for the intensive-care and anesthesia nursing, recognizing the specialty's growing knowledge demands. In 2001, the DGF's newsletter, published since 1985, merged into the intensiv, making the journal the society's organ: the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fachkrankenpflege und Funktionsdienste communicates through the intensiv.

The journal's development tracked the intensive-care nursing's professionalization: from the bedside craft to the academic discipline, from the task-oriented to the evidence-based, from the physician's assistant to the autonomous professional. The nursing science's growth, the guidelines' proliferation, and the pandemic's ICU spotlight all shaped the journal's content. The editors, including Lothar Ullrich, Heiner Friesacher, Rita Wegmann, and Jenny Wortha, provide the professional leadership.

Coverage and Content

The clinical coverage addresses the ICU nursing's core: the ventilation, the hemodynamic monitoring, the delirium prevention, and the early mobilization, with the practice contributions from the leading intensive-care units. The anesthesia-nursing coverage addresses the perioperative care: the anesthesia assistance, the recovery room, and the pain management. The guideline coverage presents the current standards: the DIVI, the DGAI, and the international guidelines translated into the nursing practice.

The nursing-science content bridges the research and the ward: the studies summarized in the journal club, the scientific knowledge prepared practically, and the transfer into the station everyday. The professional-policy coverage carries the DGF's information: the training regulations, the staffing debates, and the profession's advocacy. The journal portrays and interviews the scene's important persons: the nursing leaders shaping the specialty.

The Intensive-Care Nursing

Intensiv serves the intensive-care nursing: the nurses who care for the critically ill, operating the ventilators, managing the infusions, and comforting the families. The specialty's demands are extreme: the complex thinking and acting, the routine skills and the crisis decisions, the technology mastery and the human compassion. The journal respects this specialty: the content addresses the nurses as the professionals they are.

The nursing shortage makes the journal's role critical: the ICU nurses are scarce, the workloads heavy, and the knowledge must be efficient. The CNE points support the continuing education: the nurses earn their required credits through the journal. The DGF's organ status anchors the journal in the profession's community: the society's members read the journal that represents them.

Organization and Ownership

Intensiv is published by the Georg Thieme Verlag KG in Stuttgart, the medical specialist publisher. The editors (Herausgeber) are Lothar Ullrich, Heiner Friesacher, Rita Wegmann, and Jenny Wortha, MBA. The journal is the organ of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fachkrankenpflege und Funktionsdienste (DGF). The bibliographic data: Print ISSN 0942-6035, Online ISSN 1439-3840, DOI 10.1055/s-00000027.

The business model is the nursing-publishing model: the subscriptions with the institutional annual price of 434 euros including VAT, print with the online access for one location included, and the multi-location licenses through the eSales team; and the advertising from the medical-technology industry's manufacturers, from the ventilator makers to the monitor producers to the infusion-pump suppliers, reaching the ICU decision-makers. The hybrid publication model with the APC article-processing charge of 3,390 euros supports the open-access option: the authors can publish openly, and the readers access freely. The subscription's calendar-year cycle, starting with the year's first issue and extendable mid-year with the back issues, reflects the institutional customers: the hospital libraries and the nursing managements.

Digital Presence

The thieme-connect.com E-Journals platform carries the journal digitally: all issues since 2000 available online for the subscribers, the current articles with the recently-published and most-read rankings, and the DOI-identified content (10.1055/s-00000027) integrated into the scholarly infrastructure. The thieme.de journal page presents the profile: the numbers and facts with the 357,000 annual uses, the six annual issues, and the 18 CNE points; the editorial team; and the subscription with the manuscript-submission option. The digital uses document the online readership: the nurses accessing the articles on the devices between the shifts, in the formats that fit their professional lives.

For the intensive-care and anesthesia nurses, the intensiv is the specialist journal: the six annual issues with the well-founded specialist articles from the leading intensive-care units and anesthesia departments, the current topics with the trends and guidelines, the nursing science prepared for the practice, and the DGF's professional-policy information, in print and online with the CNE points. In the specialty where the complex thinking meets the routine skills, where the technology meets the compassion, the journal provides the knowledge that the critical care demands: for the nurses who care for the critically ill, one issue at a time, since 1992, into the future, without compromise, every day.