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The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied currently contains more than 15 million records
Health (CINAHL) database provides from Excerpta Medica Database (1974 to
authoritative coverage of the literature related present) and selected medicine records (1966 -
to nursing and allied health. present). Currently the Library does not own
the archives of Embase from 1972 to 1973.
Cochrane Library
EBSCOhost
A collection of databases that contain
independent evidence on which base clinical An intuitive online research platform used by
treatment decisions. thousands of institutions and millions of users
worldwide. With quality databases and search
Cochrane Reviews, aka Cochrane Database of features, EBSCOhost helps researchers of all
Systematic Reviews (CDSR) kinds find the information they need fast.
Other Reviews, aka Database of Abstracts of EBSCOhost offers high-quality articles licensed
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Methods Studies, aka Cochrane Methodology directly from the database (EBSCO, 2020).
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HAPI: Nursing Reference Center Plus
This is a database that provides information on Master nursing best practices with the source
measurement instruments (i.e., questionnaires, specifically for nurses. Includes PERC (go to
interview, schedules, checklists, index, More and select Patient Ed).
measures, coding schemes / manuals, rating
scales, projective techniques, vignettes /
scenarios, tests) in the health fields, PsycINFO
psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior,
and library and information science. Limited 10 SAGE Peseats Proud
simultaneous users. Scopus
Web of Science
Google Scholar
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(1947 to present) for evidence-based information designed
The National Library of Medicine's premier This resource was partially acquired with
bibliographic database covering the fields of funding from the library / IT assessment. This
medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary database complements CINAHL; providing the
medicine, the health care system, and most recent clinical evidence to nurses and
preclinical sciences. MEDLINE contains other health care professionals, directly at the
bibliographic citations and author abstracts point-of-care.
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Coverage is worldwide, but most records are Now called APA PsycINFO. PsycINFO contains
from English language sources or have English bibliographic citations and abstract from
abstracts. materials in the field of psychology and the
psychological aspects related disciplines, such
as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology,
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linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Updated weekly.
Medicine, provides access to over 12 million
MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and
additional life science journals. PubMed SAGE research methods
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journal, and reference content.
Sociological abstracts
Represent the quantity, thereby is numerical in variable is called measurement. A scale or level
nature. It can be ordered and ranked. The
following are examples of quantitative variables
but not limited to age, height, weight, test The process of assigning numerical value to a
scores, vital signs, etc. There are instances that measurement can be described as the set of
variables can express both quantitatively and rules used to assign scores and is an indicator of
qualitatively as in the grading system in schools, the kind of information that the scores provide
colleges, and universities. Quantitative as to the (Dayrit, 2011). The scale to which measurement
percent scores (60%, 80%, 100%) and belong will be important in determining
qualitative as to the letter grades (A+, A, A-, B). appropriate methods for data description and
Quantitative variables can be further classified analysis.
to the following:
TEMPLATES
Sad to say that the answer types in Microsoft One primary reason for using Google Forms is
Forms are quite limited. You get only six options its distinctive range of templates. From creating
which include multiple choices, text, ratings, a plain text-based survey to making an elegant
and others. Though Microsoft forms do not invitation card, almost everything is
have the support for separate sections, it does manageable with this simple tool. All it takes is
let you add conditional logic, commonly a click on the template gallery and the available
referred to as branching. Branching is not visible template will be displayed neatly. Staying
easily and you will have to add it from the through the concept of templates, they have
three-dot menu. preset questions. You will have to add or modify
the answer type or add a few more questions
and that is it.
SHARING AND COLLABORATION
Uncommon Features
Primary Functions (Gogoi, 2019) FILE UPLOAD
RESPONSE VALIDATION
MAKE A CASE FOR YOUR RESEARCH In this section, you summarize your main
findings, comment on those findings, and
The introduction explains why this research is
connect them to another research. You also
important or necessary. Begin by establishing
discuss limitations of your study and use these
the problem or situation that motivates the
limitations as reasons to suggest additional
research. Move to discussing the current state
future research.
of research in the field then reveal a "gap" or
problem in the field. Finally, explain how the
present research is a solution to that the
ABSTRACT
problem or gap. If the study has hypothesis,
they are presented at the end of the SUMMARIZE THE ENTIRE STUDY
introduction.
The abstract of the report comes at the
beginning of the paper, but you should write it
after you have drafted the full report. The
METHODS
abstract provides a very short overview of the
WHAT DID YOU DO? entire paper including a sentence or two about
the report's purpose and importance, a
The methods section tells readers how you
sentence or two about your methods, a few
conducted your study. It includes information
sentences that present the main findings, and a
about your population, sample, methods, and
sentence or two about the implications of your
equipment. The "gold standard" of the methods
findings.
section is that it should enable readers to
duplicate your study. Methods sections typically
use subheadings; they are written in past tense,
Common Problems in IMRAD Drafts
and they use a lot of passive voice. This is
typically the least read section of an IMRAD • The Abstract does not provide a clear
report. statement of the main findings.