Hello! This course guide has been created for students enrolled in an NURS 4360: Critical Care Nursing course. In this guide, you will find several resources intended to help with your research-related coursework.

Below is a description of the pages found in the left-hand menu:

• Research Guides - These guides provide lists of the best databases and library resources to use based on your information needs. Clicking on 'Research Guides' will bring you to a list of all the guides available. However, in the drop-down menu I've singled out the Nursing and Public Health research guides.
   
• Research Tutorials
  • Advanced Search Tips - A few key tools and strategies to create a search focused on your research needs.
  • Optimize Your Research - In this tutorial we introduce filters, functionality found in most databases that allow you to narrow results based on criteria such as date published, source type, language, and more.
  • Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles - This page contains a list of databases that contain scholarly and peer-reviewed journal articles, along with a few things to keep in mind when conducting your research.
  • Citation Chasing - Citation chasing is a strategy that can be used when conducting a literature review. The process involves taking the sources you've already found to help steer you toward undiscovered sources.
  • Using Google Scholar - To get the most out of Google Scholar there are a few things you'll want to set up first. This guide provides instruction on how to set all of that up