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Learning to Research
Welcome to this research guide for Research Utilization. This guide contains information about library resources, research methods, and citing sources to help you complete the course successfully.
See below for course information and a quick list of resources to get you started.
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Best Bets
The following can help you start your research.
See the Library Resources tab for more extensive lists of suggested materials.
Databases
- CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL with Full Text is one of the world’s most comprehensive sources of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 603 journals indexed in CINAHL.
- Nursing Journals
We subscribe individually to seven journals focused on rural health and nursing practice. These titles are essential to the Division of Nursing.
- PubMed Central
PubMed Central (PMC) is a free, full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health’s National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM). In keeping with NLM’s legislative mandate to collect and preserve the biomedical literature, PMC serves as a digital counterpart to NLM’s extensive print journal collection.
- American Journal of Nursing
The American Journal of Nursing (AJN) is the oldest and largest circulating nursing journal in the world. The Journal’s mission is to promote excellence in professional nursing, with a global perspective, by providing cutting edge, evidence-based information that embraces a holistic perspective on health and nursing.
Encyclopedia of Nursing Research by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780826107510Publication Date:Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for and an AJN Book of the Year. The award-winning Encyclopedia of Nursing Research, now in its third edition, is the comprehensive resource for tracking developments in the field.
Foundations of Nursing Research by Call Number: 610.73072 N557f5ISBN: 0136129803Publication Date:Foundations of Nursing Research illuminates all steps of the nursing research process, helping readers understand the importance of research to evidence-based nursing practice, evaluate and critique research, and determine whether study findings are ready to apply in practice.
Nursing at Northwestern
These links will take you to official NWOSU university pages.
- School of Professional Studies
The school consists of the Division of Business and the Charles Morton Share Trust Division of Nursing.
- Division of Nursing
The NWOSU Charles Morton Share Trust Nursing Program is among the top in the state with the national RN licensing examination (NCLEX) pass rates. The BSN program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. (ACEN), and is approved by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing (OBN).
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Northwestern offers a bachelor of science degree in nursing (BSN). A BSN provides the foundation of study that can serve as a basis for pursuing advanced education in nursing.
- Online RN to BSN Program
It is now more important than ever for RNs to have their BSN degrees, and we can help you do that with our innovative program for RNs to complete their BSN online.
- Graduate Studies
If you are interested in furthering your higher education at Northwestern, we offer master’s degree programs in education, counseling psychology, general psychology, and American studies—and one doctorate program in Nursing Practice (BSN to DNP online).
- BSN to DNP Program
Northwestern Oklahoma State University is one of only two public universities in Oklahoma to offer a Wisdom Family Foundation Doctoral Program for Rural Nursing Practice (DNP) and is the only public university with a BSN to DNP offering.