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NURS 7002 Advanced Nursing Research

This guide will present resources and tools for the course NURS 7002 Advanced Nursing Research.

PICO

Get started on your PICO research! Use this guide to find academic databases, video tutorials, and additional resources.

PICO Databases and Video Tutorials

CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete covers nursing, allied health, biomedical and consumer health journals, publications of the American Nursing Association, and the National League for Nursing. Includes abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, and proceedings. Full text is included for nursing journals, newsletters, standards of practice, practice acts, government publications, research instruments and patient education material.

Video: Advanced Searching in CINAHL
A 4-minute video on how you can use Advanced Search in CINAHL to search with your PICO(T) keywords.

Nursing Ovid
Provides fulltext access to the nursing journals published by Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins (LWW).

Video: Search Ovid with Subject Headings
Watch this 2-minute video on how to use your PICO(T) terms as subject headings to search Ovid.
Video: Finding Keywords in Ovid
This 3-minute video shows you how to use and combine your PICO(T) keywords in Ovid.

PubMed
Provides MEDLINE access, along with OLDMEDLINE, Pre-MEDLINE (citations in-process), and citations outside the scope of MEDLINE provided by journal publishers. Interconnects with other NCBI databases and resources. Articles from many medical journals are free after a 6-12 month embargo. Linkouts to fulltext provided at publishers' discretion. Coverage: OLDMEDLINE, 1950- 1965; MEDLINE, 1966-.

Video: Using Medical Subject Headings in PubMed
Watch this 3-minute video on using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terms. Translate your PICO(T) keywords into MeSH terms and see what articles you can find.
Video: Using MeSH terms and keywords
Watch this 4-minute video on how to use both MeSH terms and keywords to search PubMed.

PICO Tutorial

PICOT Tutorial
PICO is one of the models of research for Evidence-Based Practice. The first step involves re-phrasing your clinical scenario in the form of a focused, searchable, and answerable clinical question. This tutorial will show you how to use to PICOT, a model that outlines your clinical research question, directly relevant to the problem at hand.

PICO(TT) meaning

The first step in EBP involves re-phrasing your clinical scenario in the form of a focused, searchable, and answerable clinical question.

PICO

PICO questions

Question Formation Framework: PICO
Systematic Reviews seek to answer a specific research question. There are question formation frameworks to help you formulate a focused research question.
PICO is the most common question formation framework for systematic reviews.
PICO works well for clinical and quantitative research topics (therapy, diagnosis, prognosis, etiology/harm, and prevention questions)
PICO questions identify 3-4 concepts: patient/population/problem, intervention, comparison (optional), and outcome

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