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3EditorialTHE REGIONAL TRANSNATIONALIZATION OF LATIN AMERICAN NURSINGMaria Helena Palucci Marziale1As a knowledge generator, the university has always worked towards the internationalization of itsresearch function, based on the researchers’ autonomy. As from the 1990’s, as a consequence of theglobalization process, this assertion is no longer restricted to the research function, but also includes theteaching function(1).Nowadays, the university should work to produce pluriversity knowledge, that is, contextual knowledgeto the extent that the principle organizing its production is its possible application. As the knowledge isapplied beyond the university walls, the initiative to formulate the problems one intends to solve and todetermine criteria for their relevance is the result of sharing between researchers and users. In pluriversityknowledge production, unilaterality is replaced by interactivity, which has gained enormous power by therevolution in information and communication technologies(2).Technological development is considered one of the most important tools for internationalization andfor the use of the web to strengthen distance education and build collaborative research networks.As a result of globalization, the university increasingly needs to find regional synergies and intensifynetworks so as to stimulate and expand existing forms of transnational cooperation and multiply them in theframework of bilateral or multilateral agreements, in line with principles of mutual benefit(2).In this sense, Latin American Nursing has made efforts to transnationalize teaching and researchinstitutions and establish regional collaborative networks. Initiatives in this sense include welcoming foreignstudents, mainly in graduate programs; international associations involving consulting services to foreignuniversities; collaborative research projects, distance education, virtual learning, faculty mobility, on-linelibraries, research funding for students and faculty, among others.Some regional actions are just beginning, such as student exchange at undergraduate level andcurriculum adaptations, while others are flourishing, such as the Collaborative Networks coordinated by thePan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (nursing in patient safety, mental health nursing,child health nursing, nursing researchers and HIV, care management, nurse migration, nurses in elderlyhealth, nursing journal editors etc.); the offering of distance education, such as the courses offered to healthprofessionals from Latin American countries with a view to skills development in drugs abuse control(3) andthe Electronic journal portal in the Virtual Health Library-Nursing, currently joining 18 Nursing journals publishedin Brazil, Colombia, Chile and Spain.Thus, transnational research centers need to be created, addressing themes and problems of specificinterest to this region, and the dissemination of their research results needs to expand. In this context, theLatin American Journal of Nursing invites researchers from Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay,Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay and Venezuela to submit manuscripts about regional problems, with aview to encouraging new regional partnerships and contributing to the transnationalization of Nursing knowledgedissemination in Latin American nursing.1Editor of Latin American Journal of Nursing, Full Professor, University of Sao Paulo at Ribeirao Preto College of Nursing, WHO Collaborating Centre for NursingResearch Development, Ribeirao Preto, SP, Brazil, e-mail: marziale@eerp.usp.br.Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2009 janeiro-fevereiro; 17(1):3-4www.eerp.usp.br/rlae4REFERENCES1. Michelotto RM. Dossiê: Política de educação superior no Brasil no contexto da reforma universitária. Educ Rev jul/dez2006;(28):13-5. doi: 10.1590/S0104-40602006000200002.2. Santos BS de. A universidade no século XXI: para uma reforma democrática e emancipatória da universidade. 2004. [acessoem: 15 jan 2009]. Disponível em: http://www.mec.gov.br/reforma/Documentos/PALESTRAS/2004.7.20.12.10.23.pdf3. Mendes IAC, Marziale MHP. Developing competencies for drug demand reduction. Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2008;16, n.spe:505-6. doi: 10.1590/S0104-11692008000700001.Rev Latino-am Enfermagem 2009 janeiro-fevereiro; 17(1):3-4www.eerp.usp.br/rlaeThe regional transnationalization…Marziale MHP

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La transnacionalización regional de la enfermería de América Latina

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