NRSG 497: Research Methods in Nursing: Health Science Tutorials

Tutorials covering evidence-based practice, including identifying types of evidence, understanding study design, the hierarchy of evidence, appraising evidence, and applying evidence.

Glossary of health science terms from Credo.

Tutorials covering health science resources, including CINAHL, complementary and alternative medicine, consumer health information, using health data and statistics, resources for health statistics, locating drug information, nutrition resources, mental and behavioral health information, point-of-care resources, DynaMed, UpToDate, Nursing Reference Center, PubMed, and gray literature.

Tutorials and videos covering medical databases, searching strategy for health information, writing a PICO question, searching using a PICO question, the scientific method, and health literacy.

Tutorials covering understanding and using research sources in health science, including information on the lifecycle of medical information, reading scholarly articles, bias, peer review, APA citations, and AMA citations.

Tutorials on APA citations and academic integrity including why citations matter, APA citation style, academic integrity, plagiarism, and copyright.

A guide covering the differences between empirical and descriptive articles and how to locate materials in the library's databases.

Tutorials covering evaluating information, including materials on authority, bias, evaluating sources and information, web sources, misinformation, reporting, and lateral reading.

Tutorial on getting started with research, including why information literacy matters, life in the information age, research process, developing a research focus, narrowing a topic, background research, Google/Wikipedia, thesis statements, persuasive writing, and creating a research plan.

Tutorials covering presenting research and data, including information on synthesis, annotated bibliographies, anatomy of a research paper, writing, digital privacy, paraphrasing, quoting, and summarizing, academic writing, and presentation skills.

Tutorial covering searching for information, including searching as exploration, choosing a database, choosing and using keywords, search techniques, and refining search results.

Tutorials covering sources of information, including data, knowledge, primary research, secondary research, peer review, types of sources, primary sources, secondary sources, tertiary sources, and how to read scholarly materials.

Tutorials covering using critical thinking and logic, including information on why thinking matters, inquiry, logical reasoning, evidence-based reasoning, and analyzing information.

Tutorials on visual and quantitative literacy, including materials on searching for images, interpreting images, why visual literacy matters, using quantitative data, and evaluating statistics.

Google is a powerful search engine that offers quick and easy web searching. Use the tips and tricks provided in this guide to get the most your of your Google search.