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Resources for Nursing: Get Started

This guide will lead you to resources that help your study and research in the field of Nursing and Midwifery. There are also a range of learning tools that will allow you to develop your research and study skills.

Reference Sources

The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing & Allied Health

Shelved at: 610.73 LON

Start with a good topic

Brainstorm a Topic that Interests You:

Think of topics for which you have:

personal interest,
knowledge or life experience
an opinion
a desire to learn more

If no topic seems interesting:

take 5 minutes and write down any ideas related to the assignment that come to mind, then look at what you wrote for a pattern or an idea that stands out.

review your course textbook(s) and class notes for something interesting.

Helpful Brainstorming Resources

Web of Science
Web of Knowledge is an academic citation indexing & search service, it provides bibliographic content and tools to access, analyze, and manage research information.
Scopus
Scopus gives you access to the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Choosing a research topic

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