Nursing Research

Guide to background information and evidence-based practice resources for nursing students.

Background vs Foreground Questions

Background questions can involve a single fact, a recommended dose of a drug, a list of symptoms of a disorder, or standard treatments for a disease.  "What are the causes of migranes?" is an example of a background question.

Foreground questions are targeted questions that provide the evidentiary basis for specific clinical decisions.

R Call Numbers

This file contains the Library of Congress Classification outline for Class R (Nursing and Medicine).  Use this outline to browse the shelves.

Books

Background questions are often best answered using standard textbooks and reference sources.  Nursing and medical books can be found in the R section on the second floor of the PC Library. 

Use the search box below to search on your topic or try searching with the keywords: nursing, handbooks, manuals. Alternatively, use the PC Library Catalog. 

 

 

Ebooks

The PC Library has a growing ebook collecton. 

  • Gale eBooks - Expand "Medicine" for a list of relevant online encyclopedias.  Contains many encyclopedias related to food, such as Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia, Food Cultures of the World, and the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture.
     
  • NCBI Bookshelf - "Free access to books and documents in life science and healthcare."  Browse book titles or search within the books.   After conducting a search, click on Top results in this book to view relevant information.

 

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