Intervention research is hard to find: Reflections on RINAH's history and future

The first issue of Research in Nursing & Health, in April 1978, had an off-white cover, was 48 pages long, and was stapled like a pamphlet. Inside that flimsy shell, the lead article of the 4 in the issue was a report of a preoperative nursing intervention with sensory information and coping strategies, the sensory component of which reduced length of stay, among other positive outcomes (Johnson, Rice, Fuller, & Endress, 1978). In the next...