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Conducting Research for MSN Nursing students

Helps for identifying search terms and completing a literature search using 2 to 3 databases

Beginning Your Research

Welcome to graduate level Nursing Research!  Your capstone projects are detailed and important.  As you probably remember from undergraduate nursing, research is also time consuming.  We have created a guide to help you delve into the literature and identify the best materials for your project.  We have consulted with your instructors and capstone advisors to be sure that this material will be helpful to you.  We also encourage you to contact the library whenever you need assistance.  We check our email regularly, even on weekends and in the evenings.  We are here to help!

Objectives

Using this guide will help you to:

  • Use you Research question to develop search terms
  • Understand what MeSH terms are and how to use them to improve your search terms
  • Select and search Databases to get the best results for your topic
  • Retrieve and evaluate articles
  • Review information on citation and plagiarism

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