This is a space for the teal alert bar.
This is a space for the yellow alert bar.
This is a space for the teal alert bar.
This is a space for the yellow alert bar.
Electronically request and receive articles, book chapters, or other resources when unavailable in full-text from the NU Library.
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.
Content: Database of intervention focused systematic reviews.
Purpose: Learn the effectiveness of interventions proven through evidence-based research.
Special Features: Includes MESH and PICO search functionality.
Help using this database. Please allow cookies if the page does not load.
Content: Comprehensive consumer health resource providing authoritative information on the full range of health-related issues, from current disease and disorder information to in-depth coverage of alternative medical practices.
Purpose: Provides background reading on health issues. Check the "Refereed publications" box to find peer-reviewed, scholarly articles.
Special Features: A broad collection of premier full-text reference works, Spanish editions of notable content and a Spanish-language search filter, streaming video, audio, and images
Content: Biomedical and health journals. Provides MESH subject headings and offers the full text of many popular MEDLINE-indexed journals that are not available in other databases.
Purpose: Informs users about health and medicine topics
Special Features: Includes text-to-speech function for some articles
Content: Medical database covering nursing, allied health, education and training, development and management, midwifery, health and healthcare economics, clinical medical and healthcare social work, psychiatry and mental health, and traumatology, emergency and critical-care medicine.
Purpose: Provides information about all topics relevant to nursing and nursing education
Special Features: Advanced search functions including MESH capability.
This link opens in a new windowContent: A comprehensive medical information resource providing full-text journal content, reference ebooks, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
Purpose: Provides content for learning and researching biomedical science and related subject areas.
Special Features: Includes instructional multimedia content to help students connect theory to practice. AI research assistant on the full text page with key takeaways.
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
Content: A point-of-care, evidence-based clinical resource.
Purpose: Useful for quick information about conditions, drugs, etc.
Special Features: You will be prompted to create an account the first time you log into UpToDate that will allow you to search UpToDate and save reports using the default windows in Chrome or Firefox. The registration link might not work if you use a Chrome incognito window or Firefox private window.
Search for articles, books, dissertations, and more
Finding full-text is easy if you know what you're looking for (refer to image below):
Click image for larger view.
The following EBSCO database searches illustrates the variety of sources available for the Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate. Feel free to begin with these searches then modify to focus on your own research questions. Explore the difference of limiting results to peer review or date and adjusting the fields searched..
The following EBSCO database searches illustrates the variety of sources available for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Certificate. Feel free to begin with these searches then modify to focus on your own research questions. Explore the difference of limiting results to peer review or date and adjusting the fields searched.
The following EBSCO database searches illustrates the variety of sources available for the Nursing Administration. Feel free to begin with these searches then modify to focus on your own research questions. Explore the difference of limiting results to peer review or date and adjusting the fields searched..
Learn how to conduct a basic search for nursing and allied health literature.
Learn how to make the most of the CINAHL headings with advanced search.
This tutorial will show you how to use CINAHL and MeSH headings to improve your search.
See the Help Sheet and General Tutorials for help using Health Source and MEDLINE.
The tutorials here will help you use ProQuest Health and Medical Complete.
MESH
The Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) thesaurus is a controlled and hierarchically-organized vocabulary produced by the National Library of Medicine. Use MeSH in CINAHL and PubMed to conduct research on medical/clinical topics.
Watch this video on using MeSH in PubMed.
Watch this video on using CINAHL's Subject Headings.
PICO
PICO is a format for developing a good clinical research question prior to starting one’s research. Use the PICO format in CINAHL and Cochrane to search for scholarly articles about interventions.
Read this flipbook on conducting a PICO search in Cochrane.
