Appropriate Sources for Nursing Classes
Nursing faculty expect you to use information from legitimate health care professionals and organizations. For this course, your textbook is an appropriate source of information, as are other medical or nursing texts, and articles from professional healthcare journals. Links to some of these kinds of resources are provided in the other sections on this page. If you use websites, be aware that not all websites are appropriate.
Be sure you can identify the person or group responsible for the site and that entity is a recognized authority in health care. Well-known health care-related associations often publish reliable health information for healthcare professionals as well as the general public.
The Websites tab on this guide provides more information about how to evaluate the credibility and appropriateness of websites for yourself as well as links to a few reputable sites to get you started.
Articles: best databases to use
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CINAHL This link opens in a new windowSearch journal literature related to nursing and the allied health disciplines. Also contains early-release citations for pre-published journal articles.
Help Searching Databases
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Tips for Database SearchingStrategies that work for databases in general (including CINAHL).
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Tips for Searching CINAHLProvides video and written tutorials on how to do focused subject searching, how to limit to research, and how to limit to articles likely to be written by nurses.
Peer review explained and how to find peer-reviewed articles
Brief and excellent video from North Carolina State University explains what peer review is and why it is important.
To find peer-reviewed articles in CINAHL, use the Peer Reviewed limiter check box to narrow your results. Ask a librarian if you need help.
Wright State University Library Catalog Search
Electronic books
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ClinicalKey This link opens in a new windowCollection of resources from Elsevier; content includes medical texts, clinical guidelines, videos, images, patient education handouts and more
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PsychiatryOnline This link opens in a new windowFulltext of DSM-5, additional books and journal articles from the American Psychiatric Association
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WSU Library CatalogSearch for books, journals, media, eBooks, and more from the University Libraries
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OhioLINK Electronic Book Center (EBC)Search for e-books from OhioLINK
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NLM BookshelfFrom the National Library of Medicine- provides free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare
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Questions? Ask your librarian!
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More research guides
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Citing Your Sources-APASeveral good sources to help you with APA style. The Purdue OWL is particularly recommended for easy to understand examples.