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Nursing Research Guide

Resources to help you discover and organize information relevant to nursing research and practice.

Image from Celebrate Nurses Week, 2013

Click on the tabs to find out more about:

Evidence-Based Practice   -- What is EBP? What's a PICOT question? Where do I find the evidence? How do I evaluate it?

Articles -- Takes you directly to the list of nursing journal databases available to SSU students. Includes links to tutorials on CINAHL, PubMed and Cochrane.

Books & Media -- Ebooks, streaming video, encyclopedias & dictionaries on nursing and health-related topics.

Miscellaneous -- Professional organizations, statistics, useful websites, evaluating health web sites, and more.

Literature Reviews -- What's a lit review? How is it structured? Examples and more.

Annotated Bibliographies -- What's an annotated bib? Examples and more.

APA -- Where do the periods and commas go? Examples and links to other APA citation resources.

Tools -- Citation management tools such as  Zotero. Writing and brainstorming tools.

Presentations -- At some point, you'll have to do a presentation. Great tools to help you shine your brightest!