LibGuides at the CDU Health Sciences Library: School of Nursing: Nursing Research

Books in the library on nursing research

Essentials of Nursing Research : Appraising Evidence for Nursing Practice by Denise Polit; Cheryl Tatano Beck
Call Number: WY 20.5 P769 2014
8th ed., Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2014.

The first step in research : what previous research has found

The following research tools will help you identify (and maybe retrieve) article on your subject that will help you formulate a question for your research project.

PubMed
PubMed comprises more than 26 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.
CINAHL with Full Text
The world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for more than 770 journals indexed in CINAHL®, including many of the most-used journals in the index—with no embargo. Of those, 464 are not found with full text in any version of Academic Search™, Health Source® or Nursing & Allied Health Collection™.
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Search for articles in nursing and allied health fields. Includes some books, videos and other materials.

The final step : Presenting your results

Anatomy of Writing for Publication for Nurses by Cynthia Saver
2nd ed., Sigma Theta Tau International, 2014.
Writing for Publication in Nursing by Marilyn H. Oermann; Judith C. Hays
3rd ed., Springer Publishing Company, 2016.
Proposal Writing for Nursing Capstones and Clinical Projects by Wanda E. Bonnel; Katharine Vogel Smith
Springer Publishing Company, 2014.

From the National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Nursing Research
Information regarding current and future research focusing on issues that affect nursing and other health professions. One of the 27 Institutes that comprise the U. S.National Institutes of Health (NIH).