Nursing 212: Foundations of Professional Nursing
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This guide includes information and resources designed to aid you in locating research and citing sources for your assignments in Nursing 212. For further assistance, reach out to your librarian using the contact information in the left-hand column.
Databases for Nursing Literature
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowArticles from scholarly and professional journals, books, dissertations, standards of practice, audiovisuals, and other materials in nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and related disciplines. Provides some full text. Covers materials published 1937-present.
- ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new windowSupporting students, instructors, researchers, and healthcare professionals, ProQuest's Nursing & Allied Health Premium offers over 700 scholarly journals, 350+ training videos, and provides a unique immersive user experience.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowJournal articles, online books, and other materials in biomedical fields, including medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and preclinical sciences. Links to some full text. Covers materials published 1950-present, with some coverage extending earlier.
Types of Review Articles
- Overview of Systematic Reviews from Brown UniversityTrying to understand the differences between literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta analyses, and more? This guide from Brown provides a great overview of the differences between and definitions of various reviews.
Cochrane Reviews
What is a Cochrane review?
As defined on their website, "A Cochrane Review is a systematic review of research in health care and health policy that is published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews." Cochrane is widely respected and publishes thousands of rigorous systematic reviews. However, Cochrane is far from the only source of systematic reviews; you can also find high-quality systematic reviews published in scholarly journals.
Where can I find Cochrane reviews?
You will often see Cochrane reviews in PubMed and CINAHL search results. When searching in either PubMed or CINAHL, you can use advanced search tools to search specifically for Cochrane reviews.
There is also a separate database specifically for Cochrane reviews on the Cochrane Library website, but I generally don't recommend searching here, as you'll frequently hit paywalls.
Evidence-Based Clinical Resources
- Micromedex This link opens in a new windowMicromedex provides clinical information such as drug, pediatric, disease, lab, and toxicology information, plus comprehensive resources for patient and consumer education.
- UpToDate This link opens in a new windowUpToDate is an evidence-based clinical decision support resource, trusted worldwide by healthcare practitioners to help them make the right decisions at the point of care. Access Note: The first time you access UpToDate you may be prompted to register for an UpToDate account. You are not required to do this and can click "Continue with your search" to continue on to UpToDate.
Tools for Finding and Managing Nursing Literature
- BrowZine This link opens in a new windowBrowZine is the preferred service that researchers around the world use to browse, read and follow the scholarly journals available from their library. For more information, visit the Browzine guide.
- ZoteroZotero is a free, easy-to-use tool which allows you to collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. Zotero automatically recognizes content as you browse the web and allows you to save items to your library with a single click.