Nursing: Get Started

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Encyclopedias, handbooks, and dictionaries are a great place to begin your research, since they can help with the following:

• Offer ideas for possible research topics
• Give you background information on your topic
• Define unfamiliar terms
• Suggest keywords to use when searching for books and articles
• Point you to books and articles on your topic, via "works cited" lists

We have several journals online that provide overviews and updates on clinical questions, advancements in improving patient outcomes, and patient care guidelines. Each volume in the two journals below addresses a different nursing topic.

Search them for overviews of your topic and to identify relevant nursing interventions.