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Madigan Medical Library

EBP Research for Nurses

These are the resources we recommend to nurses conducting their own research into Evidence-Based Practice.

Library Resources

          Always use this link! Bookmark it now!

More than 36 million citations to biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.


 

          Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature

1200+ full-text, peer-reviewed journals and popular magazines that write about health topics (e.g., AARP Magazine).


 

Clinical Key for Nursing

1300+ peer-reviewed journals.  Evidence-based knowledge to support optimal clinical decisions.  Includes some CE.


 

Clinical Skills          Online version of Mosby's Pocket Guide to Nursing Skills & Procedures.

2000+ skills, procedures, and competency checklist. Videos, PDFs, images, one-page guides, and more.  Includes some CE.


 

JBI EBP Resources          Joanna Briggs Institute Evidence-Based Practice Resources

Worldwide network of researchers, produces Evidence Summaries, Recommended Practices, Best Practice Information Sheets, and Quality Indicators.  This is one of the best EBP sites anywhere.


 

Lexicomp

Comprehensive evidence-based drug database, dosage calculators, interaction alerts, patient education, and more!


 

Medications & Mother's Milk

Information on 1300+ drugs, effects on moms, effects on babies, and persistence in breast milk. 


 

Patient Education Reference Center

1600 topics, including diseases, conditions, procedures, lab tests, wellness, prevention, discharge, and home care information. Customizable handouts.


 

SMART Imagebase          Scientific & Medical ART 

20,000+ high-quality images and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, and other topics.  Images may be downloaded for educational, non-commercial use in lectures, presentations, websites, and more.


 

Web of Science

21,000+ peer-reviewed journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.  Completely different search platform from all others -- Web of Science uses citations in bibliographies to establish relationships between articles.  Highly-cited articles in high-impact journals carry weight here.  Articles are linked if one cites another or is cited by another; the more citations articles have in common, the more tightly linked they are.

Web of Science is particularly good at finding interdisciplinary research:  For example, articles on medical devices may be published in the medical literature or in the engineering literature.  You know how to find medical literature, but you might not even think to look in engineering literature.  Because both fields cite each other, you can find links outside of your regular lit searches through Web of Science.