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NUR3500: Nursing Research: Locating Resources

Research Basics for Nursing

Quantitative vs. Qualitative

Search Tip: Keywords

It is usually a good idea to start out broadly, so using just one or two of your topic terms is a good way to begin. Once you have a set of results, you can begin narrowing down your results by entering one or more terms. Searching in a specific field such as "Subject" or "Title" will narrow or focus your results.

Search Tip: Truncation

Truncation Finds Multiple Word Forms

The asterisk (*) is usually used to search words with the same root:

 Person* =  Personal, Personality, Personable,  etc.

Wildcard symbols (usually a ‘?’) replace a single letter:

Wom?n = Woman, Women

Locating Research Articles

Specialized Nursing Databases

Google Scholar

Additional Library Databases

Take a Closer Look

Scholarly vs Popular

PICOT

Patient/Population

Intervention

Comparison

Outcome

Time