Writing & Research in the Disciplines: Nursing & Allied Health

Nursing and the allied health professions  are found within the larger disciplines of medicine and science. While Medicine and the Sciences are not the same discipline, they do value the same general ideas in their professional writing. Readers in both Medicine and Science value:

• Current references and sources; the more current the better.
• Processes and measurements that can be reproduced. In both of these fields practitioners and theorists would like to try to achieve similar results, so share your methodology clearly.
• Proof of conclusions. It is important to show how you arrived at your thinking by examining your thinking clearly in your writing.
• Application to the field of study: How will this information apply to the practice of nursing or respiratory therapy? What are the challenges of implementing evidence-based medicine within the specific field?

Nursing and most of the other allied health programs at Walker Library will find current articles in:

• Academic Search Premier
• ​JEWL Search

In Addition: 

• CINAHL Complete
• ​Health Source: Nursing/Academic Complete
• MEDLINE with FullText
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive 
• ​PsycARTICLES
• PubMed Nursing Journals subset
• ​ScienceDirect

Below are links to research guides created here at Walker Library either for a specific discipline or program or for a specific assignment. 

They will give you a little deeper understanding of what instructors might require.

• Nursing
• HLTH 6850: Methods in Epidemiology

Below are links to research guides created here at Walker Library either for a specific discipline or program or for a specific assignment. 

They will give you a little deeper understanding of what instructors might require.

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