NURSING 

Use the advanced search: it lets you limit your searches by domain names,allowing you to choose to avoid commercial sites, choose sites from a specific country, or retrieve only sites from non-profit organizations, for example. Cutting down the huge numbers of items you retrieve will save you time!

Use Google Scholar if you want only scholarly writings. Many, though not all, of these will have been published in journals or books, not just on the Internet.

Never pay for an article online without talking to us first!  One of the downsides of using Google is that you may think you have to buy an article that's available through the USM libraries.  When in doubt, check with the library staff.

When selecting Internet resources it is important to evaluate the quality of any websites that you use. Consult the USM Library’s Evaluating Web Resources guide, or Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkley) for evaluation criteria. The following is a selected list of websites that you may find useful. Consult your course guide on Blackboard for more sites.

Best Practice Guidelines
Developed by the Royal Nurses Association of Ontario. Designed to provide nurses with evidence-based recommendations regarding assessment and/or screening in a variety of practice settings. Includes 29 published guidelines as well as a Toolkit and Educator's Resource to support implementation.

BMJ Online
Online version of the British Medical Journal. Contains a series of articles on How to Read a Paper, including Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research) and Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses).

EBN Online
The electronic version of the journal Evidence-Based Nursing. Contains a link to evaluating systematic reviews of treatment/prevention.

Evidence-Based Nursing: Guides and Tools
An excellent site from McGill University with an extensive list of links to areas such as Question Formulation, Literature Searching, Critical Appraisal Tools and Examples.

National Guideline Clearinghouse
Comprehensive database of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and related documents. You can browse the guidelines by disease/condition, by treatment/intervention, or by the name of the submitting organization. Guidelines are abstracted into a standardized format and easy to compare.