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NUR 300 - Foundations of Professional Nursing

Tips and resources on how to do the research for your assignments.

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This guide has been created to support the curriculum of NUR 300: Foundations of Professional Nursing.

The guide refers to the most commonly used databases in nursing and provides tips to help complete the course assignments:

  1. Using Databases to Find Articles - tips to help you identify articles on your topic
  2. Finding Peer Reviewed Articles - tips on determining if an article is peer reviewed
  3. Getting the Articles - instructions on how to get the full text of articles once you've identified them in databases
  4. Handling Citations - tips and tools to help you manage your citations and format them in APA style

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