This guide has been created to support the curriculum of NUR 303: Foundations of Professional Nursing.
The guide refers to the most commonly used databases in nursing and provides tips to help complete the course assignments:
This premier resource for practice of the professional registered nurses(RN) is informed by the advances in health care and professional nursing today. Its 17 competencies-defined standards of nursing practice and professional performance detail the basic competent level expected of all RNs
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The Hoffman Family Library provides support for nursing students completing course assignments and research projects. Using library services and resources will help you successfully achieve your learning objectives and prepare you to use information reso
Guide for creating and using Academic Writer
Content: EBSCO’s nursing database covering biomedicine, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and allied health disciplines.
Purpose: Database for research in nursing, medicine, and consumer health.
Special Features: Strong qualitative studies. Filter studies by nurse as author, evidence-based practice, and type of study. Includes MESH indexing, PICO search functionality, text-to-speech feature for some articles, and a tool for discovering citing articles.
The premier full-text medical database. Contains scholarly articles on all health sciences topics.
Content: Includes citations to millions of biomedical journal articles, as well as some books, book chapters, and reports.
Purpose: An essential database for biomedical and health topics
Special Features: Includes MeSH search functionality
