Searching for Answers - NUR 5013 - Nursing Science - SBU Libraries at Southwest Baptist University Libraries

Step 2 in the EBP Process

The second step in the evidence-based practice process is to search for answers to your research question.

The SBU Libraries provide multiple options for finding nursing research. Search within the recommended nursing and allied health databases or use our integrated search tool, SearchEverything, to search across all article databases, books, e-books, and films.

Recommended Databases:

CINAHL Complete
This database is the most comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals. It is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing & allied health literature.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
This database contains full-text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. It includes evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.
LWW Nursing and Health Professions Premier Collection
This journal collection gives you over 80 of today's top nursing journals used by nurses, nursing students, and health professionals around the world on a daily basis. Designed to meet the needs of health professionals, students, and researchers, this database gives users access to some of the best titles addressing today’s nursing and allied health topics.
MEDLINE with Full Text
MEDLINE with Full Text provides authoritative information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and pre-clinical sciences found on MEDLINE, as well as full-text for 1,470+ journals indexed in MEDLINE.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
This resource provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities and nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions, it provides an index and abstracts for 850+ titles with 715+ titles in full-text, as well as 12,000+ full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.

Having trouble finding the information you need? Chat your librarian to get immediate assistance or set up a research consultation where we can sit down in person and I can advise you on search strategies and potential sources of information on your topic.