The articles below provide tips for reading and critiquing nursing and medical journal articles.
Nursing Research Critiques| Article | Critique |
This video explains how to identify components of scholarly articles so that you can navigate them more efficiently.
The premium research databases listed below allow you to access millions of articles from reputable publications such as nursing and medical journals and encyclopedias. You can save, print, email, and generate citations for documents in these databases.
Start your search with the PICO method. PICO stands for patient/population, intervention, comparison and outcomes.
Use SIMPLE KEYWORDS in search boxes:
ethics and cancer
ethics and euthanasia
liability and clinical
legal and home health
"legislation and jurisprudence" and nursing
Use LIMITERS to narrow the results
Research articles follow a specific format and are organized into standard sections. Skim the abstract and article for the following sections:
Introduction
Participants
Objectives
Methods
Discussion
Conclusion
References
Letters to the editor
News articles
Literature reviews
Editorials & opinion pieces
Systematic reviews
Information articles
Care plans
Meta analysis & meta synthesis
Explains how journal articles are structured and how that can help your research.
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