Nursing Research at the Graduate Level

The ANA's Research Toolkit offers an introduction to research and evidence-based practice. It provides access to numerous resources to translate evidence into practice and to support nurse researchers.

1. Asking the Question
2. Acquiring Information
3. Appraising the Evidence
4. Essential Nursing Resources
5. Research Glossaries
6. Critique a Research Article
7. Education about Evidence-based Practice and Research
8. Comparative Effectiveness Research/Patient Centered Outcomes Research
9. Human Subjects Protection
10. Research Funding
11. Research Organizations
12. ANA’s Research Agenda
13. National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®)
14. International Council of Nurses (ICN) Evidence-Based Practice Resource
15. Research Repository [Members Only - Login Required]

Look for FullText@BloomU links to obtain full-text articles or to request interlibrary loans.

To use off-campus, enable our FullText@BloomU links by going to Google Scholar menu > Settings > Library Links > search for 'Bloomsburg' and select all available 'library access links' and save your settings.

Questions? Ask us

To get more relevant search results, limit your search results to a specific domain, for example .edu, .org, .gov, .net .

Enter your keywords followed by the words site:[domain]. For example, if you are looking for evidence of the effectiveness of nurse midwives, then you might type: nurse midwives effectiveness site: gov