Nursing

This is a guide for GRC's nursing students.

What's in this guide?

Welcome to your Nursing Research Guide!

This guide was created to help nursing students incorporate research into their nursing practice by honing skills in evaluating sources, developing a research topic, finding evidence-based information, citing sources and presenting projects.  It includes research tools from the main Green River College Holman Library Website that are most useful to nursing students.

How to Use this Guide:

  • Option A: Navigate the guide by using the assignments and video tutorials unique to your program by clicking either the PN Students or BSN Students tabs

  • Option B: Navigate by starting at the top tab and clicking each tab in succession. The guide is structured to walk you through the steps and skills needed for a typical research process. Note that "Identify Research Study Types" and "Critically Appraise Research Study Methodology" and "Find Different Research Study Types" tabs are specific to BSN students

  • Option C: Click on specific tabs to locate the targeted info and research tools that you need

Image Source: "Nurse at Cathlab control room" by Irwan iwe is in the Public Domain, CC0

image of Army nurses 2nd Lt. Rosa Cervantes (right) and 2nd Lt. Tracy Swan work together to give an IV to a intensive care unit patient at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center. (U.S. Army photo by Patricia Deal, CRDAMC Public Affairs)

Image source: "Nurses" by Army Medicine is licensed under CC BY 2.0

image of nurse giving a flu vaccine in Vietnam

Nurse giving flu vaccine in Vietnam by CDC Global is licensed under (CC BY 2.0)