Nursing Students General Students
Published Jan 29, 2008
Jvm413
16 Posts
I'm in my 3rd clnical semester (graduation in dec woohoo) and I'm taking a research class on top of all my clinicals. I just found out that along with my careplans and logs I have to submit evidenced based research on some aspect of my patients (this would be in maternity, pediatrics and psych).
i get the concept and all i'm just wondering if anyone has suggestions for sites that i can located articles and be able to print out the basic info (abstracts publisher conclusions etc) without having to pay an astronomical fee.
thanks alot guys!
DLS_PMHNP, MSN, RN, NP
1,301 Posts
Your school's library would have them for sure I would think. It might be a pain to photocopy them, but at least you will have the full article.
Good Luck! I feel your pain, I have nursing research this semester, too
Diane
woody436
104 Posts
Your research desk at your library should be able to get you access to your schools subscribed databases which should include many of the current Nursing research journals. Evidenced based practice revolves around the current research. CINHAL is the big journal database.
You can find research around many of the things your patients are experiencing. I did mine on research around the research that 800mg ibuprofen tablets offer no better pain control than 600mg tablets. The implication, of course, was that it was less costly for the patient with the same outcome. There are many more, it just takes some digging.
Good Luck
Jeff
Daytonite, BSN, RN
1 Article; 14,604 Posts
Get with the research librarian and find out what the resources are. Then, it just a matter of going through them to find articles to support your rationales on your nursing intervention in your care plans. Nursing Diagnosis Handbook: A Guide to Planning Care, 7th Edition, by Betty J. Ackley and Gail B. Ladwig actually references a lot of the EBN (Evidence Based Nursing) articles for many of the nursing interventions in their book.
We had to do this also in my BSN program. Computers were not as commonly used then. We had to use the Reader's Guides to Periodical Literature and the old card files.
Music in My Heart
1 Article; 4,109 Posts
As mentioned above, check out CINAHL. Our librarian just took us through it. One of the filters is "Evidence Based Practice" so you can find articles that have been specifically screened as being applicable.