Libraries Learning Commons: Practical Nursing Sources: Journals + Databases

Search Strategy

7 Steps to the Perfect PICO search
Evidence-Based Nursing Practice: A document that will explain PICO and how to use the strategy in your research and for assignments. Patient/Problem, Intervention, Comparison, and Outcome (PICO). A document created by Kathy A. Jensen, EBSCO Health, with references inside document.

Journals

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Links here provide journal titles association with each topic below:

Directory of Open Access Journals
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Search keywords in the Applied Health Fields like dental, pharmacy, occupational therapist, paramedic, personal support worker, nursing, health sciences.
Journals@OVID LWW
LWW OVID Nursing Journals package 2023. Access to about 100 journal titles.
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https://clear.scholarsportal.info/licenses/Ovid

Online Journals

NC Libraries holds journals, magazines and newspapers in the print collection and thousands more are available online through our databases. Here is an example of a few titles that are available online:

Research Databases

Alt-HealthWatch
CINAHL Ultimate
CINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
Ebook Central
Health & Medical Collection
Health Source: Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
MEDLINE with Full Text
ProQuest Central
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Public Health Database
Science Database

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ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Premium Video Titles (August 2022)
Access via logging into database, current video titles from Medcom, on a variety of health, nursing, and massage therapy topics. Regularly updated and reviewed for standards/best practices/content.