Guides: Nursing Research Guide: Starting Point for Library Navigation

Introduction

Using library resources can sometimes be overwhelming. Check out the various videos, PowerPoint presentation, and links to begin your research.

Library Resources Navigation

The below videos provide a useful introduction to library services. Topics covered include how to find a book in the stacks to requesting ILL requests.

To see more tutorial videos, visit our Online Tutorials page.

How to Research

Doing a Literature Review

APA Literature Review Guidelines
Justus J. Randolph. (2009). A Guide to Writing the Dissertation Literature Review. Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 14(13), 1–13.
Lingard, L. Writing an Effective Literature Review: Part 1-Mapping the Gap. Perspectives on Medical Education (2018) 7: 47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-017-0401-x
Literature Review Guidelines in Evidence Based Nursing
Literature Reviews for Education and Nursing Graduate Students
Peer reviewed open textbook most recently updated in 2019, by Linda Frederiksen, Sue F. Phelps

"A Guide to Writing the Dissertation Literature Review"

Find an article

Articles can be found electronically and in print in the Catholic University Libraries.

Step one: Start your reseach in SearchBox (the articles tab).

Step two: Search a Nursing database using keywords pertinent to your topic. If the article is not available in full-text from a particular database, click on the "360 Find It" button.

Step three: Search CU's Journals for print and electronic journals. Works well when you have a citation, but not full text.

Step four: If CUA does not have the article you can request it through the Interlibrary Loan service.

Step five: Contact your library liaison at:

http://libraries.cua.edu/about/subjlibs.cfm