Welcome to the Library Guide for nursing research at TLU! Use the boxes on this page to:
1. Find background information in reference books
2. Find books, ebooks or videos
3. Find articles
4. Evaluate and cite your sources
5. Get personalized research help from a librarian
Reference books can provide background material and be a launching point for further research. The following titles are just a few examples.
The Library Catalog is the gateway to finding books. Commonly used terms for nursing items are Nursing, Allied Health, and Evidence-based. Nursing books will tend to be in the RT section.
Many of our nursing books are ebooks, these will have an eb at the end of the call number and may be accessed electronically.
Databases allow you to find scholarly articles, disease overviews, care sheets, book chapters, and more. To see a full list of TLU's databases related to nursing, go to the Nursing Databases page. Here are a few of the key databases and tutorials:
830-372-8100
Use the "Ask a Question" link. If we are not online at the time, it will send us an email instead of a chat.
During library open hours, ask at the main desk for help finding what you need or help setting up an appointment with a librarian.
Finding research instruments like questionnaires, tests, and scales can be challenging. Many of them are proprietary and must be requested from publishers. Some cost money to use.
Here are some strategies for finding instruments:
This PDF handout lists TLU's nursing resources according to the 6S model: Systems, Summaries, Synopses of Syntheses, Syntheses, Synopses of Studies, and Studies.
Follow this link to TLU's Human Subject Research (HSR) training, required for all Principal Investigators (student, faculty or staff) prior to submitting a protocol to the Institutional Review Board (IRB).
If you are using an off-campus computer, you will be prompted for your last name (Not your network username but last name only) and your 8-digit TLU number.
Need an item that our library doesn't own? No worries, you can email the title, author and date of what you need to ill@tlu.edu or fill out a form. We can get most (but not all) articles within 2 days and many books within 4-8 days.
For more information, visit our interlibrary loan page.
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