Research Guides: Nursing Research Guide: BNURS 350

BNURS350 presentation slides

Topics

Should cranberry juice be used to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs)?
Should antibiotics be used to treat otitis media in children?
Should pregnant women take ADHD medication?
Should alternating pressure air surfaces be used over other surfaces to prevent pressure ulcers?
Should healthcare organizations use 8 or 12 hour shifts for its nursing staff?

Getting Started with Nursing Research

Welcome!

This page is designed to highlight library information and support for students of BNURS 350.

My hope is that our time together and these resources will help you search effectively in CINAHL and MEDLINE from EBSCHost as well as PubMed. I want you to have a basic understanding of levels of evidence, peer-review, and tools that can help you make sense of a journal article. Lastly, I want to share some help for APA citation.

Tutorials for PubMed and for CINAHL/MEDLINE from EBSCOHost

CINAHL Complete Tutorial- Finding Evidence-Based Practice Articles in CINAHL

CINAHL Help Sheet for searching - Creating a Basic or Advanced Search

CINAHL/MeSH Tutorial- Using MeSH in EBSOhost

MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) Tutorial- Advanced Medical Searching

PubMed Tutorial- Find Articles on a Topic

PubMed Advanced Search Tutorial- Using the Advanced Search Builder

Highlighted Databases for EBP Nursing Articles

CINAHL Complete
Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. CINAHL provides full text for more than 1,300 nursing and allied health journals. CINAHL also includes 2 useful series: "Evidence-based Care Sheets" and "Quick Lessons".
MEDLINE
"MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals."
PubMed
Use PubMed to search MEDLINE, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's database covering the fields of medicine and nursing. MEDLINE indexes over 4,000 journals from more than 70 countries. Some access to full text is available, but many items appear in summary form, i.e. abstract, only. This particular link to PubMed is customized for Olympic College, and it enables users to link out to full-text articles that we purchase through ScienceDirect, EbscoHost and ProQuest.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect provides an extensive collection of books and journals in health/life sciences, physical sciences, and social/behavioral sciences.

APA Citation

Here are some of the most useful APA Citation links-

Sample Papers- APA Style Guidance

APA 7th Edition Handouts and Guides

APA (7th Edition) Documentation Style
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Zotero Bib
ZoteroBib is a free AND ad-free citation and bibliography tool. One of the most accurate citation generators but you still need to check and correct citations.