Research Guides: NUR 340: Finding articles

What is evidence based practice?

Evidence Based Practice Guide
This guide from the library has more information about evidence based practice, levels of evidence, and suggested places to find evidence.

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature This link opens in a new window
Index to journals in nursing, medical technology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, physician assistant studies, and other allied heath disciplines. Also includes a selection of pharmacy and pharmacology titles.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
Biomedical database from the U.S. National Library of Medicine containing millions of citations from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Look for the Clinical Queries option on PubMed's homepage to help you in finding clinical studies.

Primo
Primo has the widest coverage of the library's resources, searching many databases at once.

Searching suggestions

Different databases search different sets of publications and work differently. As a result, you might have more luck in one database over another.
Different combinations of words will bring back different results, so if your first combination does not get you what you want, try another.
The database is trying to match the words you searched with items in that database. Think about what words the author might have used to describe their work. For example, an author might have tested a particular technique, but not use the word positive or negative to explain their results, so searching for those words might not get your many results. Instead, you might need to read articles on your topic and determine what the positives were.