NUR 3300 - Foundations of Research and Evidence-Based Practice: Scholarly Articles

Explains the difference between a background question and a foreground question and also differentiates between the types of clinical questions. From East Carolina University.

Several good sources to help you with APA style. The Purdue OWL is particularly recommended for easy to understand examples.

General overview of available library and online information sources. Good starting point for your nursing courses throughout your studies at Wright State.

Brief tutorials. Includes 5-minute video explaining peer-review.

CINAHL help: subject searching and limiting search results to articles likely to be written by nurses.

PubMed help: subject searching, other search features, and how to limit to nursing-related research.

Links to selected eBooks.

From North Carolina State University Libraries. 3-minute video explaining peer-review.

CINAHL help: subject searching and limiting search results to articles likely to be written by nurses. START WITH CINAHL AND LIMIT TO THE NURSING JOURNAL SUBSET TO BE SURE YOUR TOPIC AND RESEARCH ARTICLE ARE WITHIN THE SCOPE AND PRACTICE OF NURSING!!! Ask for HELP at right, if needed.

PubMed help: subject searching, other search features, and how to limit to nursing-related research.

Research Toolkit workshops are designed to address the most common challenges students face in doing college-level research, including navigating databases, locating relevant sources, and making sense of information once it is found.