Long-Term Care Nursing (Pielęgniarstwo w Opiece Długoterminowej) is an international quarterly which has been published since 2016. The original version of this scientific journal is its digital edition (http://www.wydawnictwo.pwszplock.pl/); however, all the issues are going to be published in a full-text paper version, too.

Our journal contains reviewed original papers (research and clinical trial papers), review articles and case studies describing chronic conditions which people of all ages suffer from. Those who deal with such conditions include specialists in medicine, health sciences and physical education sciences. Also, our quarterly presents letters to the editor, editorials, book reviews, conference reports and materials as well as congress and conference announcements.

This scientific journal is intended for nursing circles and other professionals who work in the fields of healthcare, cosmetology, social welfare and education, and whose scientific research centres on chronically ill people, taking into account biological, psychological, social, organisational, didactic and economic aspects.

All the rules contained in the Declaration of Helsinki and Interdisciplinary Principles and Guidelines for the Use of Animals in Research, Testing and Education are obeyed by the editorial board of the quarterly. Consequently, the board expect all research presented in the quarterly to be approved by the appropriate local Ethical Committee. Each paper needs to include a piece of information about such approval being granted.

I trust that the next issue of our scientific journal will be given a favourable reception by the readers. I wish to thank all the authors for their willingness to publish their papers in this quarterly. I extend my gratitude to all my collaborators for their invaluable assistance in preparing this issue. Also, I thank the reviewers for their thorough and critical evaluation of the papers, which has undoubtedly made the present publication even more valuable.

Copyright: © The Mazovian Academy in Płock This is an Open Access journal, all articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/), allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.

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