Research Guides: Nursing: Research Help

Welcome

Welcome to the Nursing Research Guide!

This guide is to help you get a jumpstart on Nursing Research by giving an overview of what Nursing Resources are available in the library, along with some quick tips on how to find and use them. When in doubt, contact the Nursing liaison librarian.

Resources

Databases

SUU's Sherratt Library provides access to a number of databases on a wide range of subjects. A library database is a search engine to find abstracts, journal articles, e-books, or multimedia. If you find an article in a database but we do not have access to the full-text version, you can use our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services and we will get it for you from another library. This service is free. For help on how to search a database, please check our research guide on using databases, or contact the liaison librarian for Nursing. Below is a list of the most commonly used databases with content related to Nursing, to get you started. Go to the Library website for the complete list of SUU’s nursing databases.

CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text for over 1,300 nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) database, indexing for nearly 5,500 journals, and searchable cited references for more than 1,500 journals. CINAHL also includes full text dating back to 1937. Evidence-Based Care Sheets and Quick Lessons provide concise overviews of disease and conditions and outline most effective treatment options.
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From the U.S. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database that contains citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers engaged in clinical care, public health and health policy development.
Over 24 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine. Indexed records with NLM Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). Citations from over 5,600 worldwide journals in 60 languages. Coverage from 1946 to the present. Publications from scholarly journals. Majority of journals selected based on the recommendation of the Literature Selection Technical Review Committee.
NCBI Bookshelf This link opens in a new window
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Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. NCBI Bookshelf is a collection of free biomedical books that can be searched directly or from linked data in other NCBI databases. The collection includes biomedical textbooks, other scientific titles, genetic resources such as GeneReviews, and NCBI help manuals.
Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new window
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An evidence-based point-of-care resource to quickly answers nurses’ clinical questions. This expanded resource includes multimedia (e.g. videos and images), nursing management topics, care plans, leadership and management continuing education modules, additional skills, and more!
Ovid Nursing Journals and Resources This link opens in a new window
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Platform providing full-text nursing and medical journals (under "Journals"); Lippincott Nursing Procedures, 8th Ed. (under "Books"); and Visible Body (under its own link). Provided by the Nursing Initiative of the Utah Academic Library Consortium.
Public Health Database This link opens in a new window
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Search the core literature in the field of public health.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
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PubMed has than 24 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
TRIP This link opens in a new window
TRIP, Turning Research into Practice, provides direct, hyperlinked access to the largest collection of 'evidence-based' material on the web, searching over 75 sites of high-quality medical information.
UpToDate This link opens in a new window
UpToDate medical resource is an evidence-based clinical decision support resource at the point of care. Must create account.

All SUU's Nursing Databases
Be sure to explore the complete list of databases with content in Nursing.

Other Online Resources

American Nurses Association
Information on everything relevant to nurses from ethics, certifications, grants, scholarships, and health news.
Learning Nurse Resources Network
Informal training, continuing education and professional development for nurses from our friendly neighbors to the north.

Journals and Periodicals

Although many of the journals we have in Sherratt Library are available in electronic form and searchable through our databases, some are only available in hard copy or print. Below is a list of commonly used Nursing journals. You can search inside these electronic journals directly by clicking on the title [not operational yet]. Print copies of journals are housed on the first floor of Sherratt Library, organized alphabetically by title.

American Journal of Nursing
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Holistic Nursing Practice
JAMA : Journal of the American Medical Association
Journal of Nursing Care Quality
The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing

Books and Ebooks

Here at Sherratt Library, you can find our books and ebooks using the Library Catalog. We use the Library of Congress classification system to organize most of our items, including print books and e-books. Based on this classification, each book as an address or call number that you can find on the label on the spine of a book. The cool thing about this is that if you find a book you like, the books immediately surrounding it will have similar topics so you can browse around to find more information. Below is a general list of call numbers that relate to Nursing to help you find what you need. For example, books with call numbers starting with R are about Medicine. Within R, books with call numbers starting with RJ are about Pediatrics, and items with call numbers in the range RJ245-247 are specifically about Pediatric Nursing. For information on how to search for books, check out our research guide on the Library catalog, or contact your friendly librarian.

Library of Congress Classification CLASS R - MEDICINE
Subclass RA Public aspects of medicine
Subclass RB Pathology
Subclass RC Internal medicine
Subclass RD Surgery
Subclass RE Ophthalmology
Subclass RF Otorhinolaryngology
Subclass RG Gynecology and obstetrics
Subclass RJ Pediatrics
Subclass RK Dentistry
Subclass RL Dermatology
Subclass RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Subclass RS Pharmacy and materia medica
Subclass RT Nursing
Subclass RV Botanic, Thomsonian, and eclectic medicine
Subclass RX Homeopathy
Subclass RZ Other systems of medicine

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Evidence Based Practice

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) or evidence based practice (EBP):

Evidence based practice relies on the premise that to make well informed decisions about practice, researchers need to access the best evidence about interventions. Evidence-based practice can be said to be an integration of the best research evidence from the literature, your own expertise and experience, and your clients' values and situation. (Sackett, 1996)