Nursing Research and Evidence-Based Practice Symposium!
2025 Commonspirit Health Nurse Research and Evidence Based Practice Virtual Symposium. Nurses Ignighting the Spark in Patient care: Innovation, Research, EBP,
- Thursday, September, 18th,2025
- 12 pm- 4 pm:ET, 11 am - 3 pm:CT, 10 am - 2 pm: MT, 9 am - 1 pm: PT
To learn more about the symposium, including the agenda and speakers, and to register, please CLICK HERE.
Nursing Databases
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AORN eGuidelines Each AORN Guideline includes recommendations intended to optimize patient care that are informed by a systematic review of evidence and an assessment of the benefits and harms of alternative care options. The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) is used to prepare transparent accounts of the systematic reviews that inform each guideline.
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CINAHL Plus with Full Text CINAHL Plus with Full Text includes 3,526 active indexed and abstracted journals. 3,036 of them are peer-reviewed.
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ClinicalKey for Nursing ClinicalKey for Nursing provides clinically relevant answers for nurses, including evidence-based nursing monographs, books, journals and practice guidelines.
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Clinical Skills By combining 1,900+ evidence-based skills and procedures with competency management functionality, Clinical Skills helps ensure that knowledge and skills are current, and reflective of best practices and the latest clinical guidelines anywhere, anytime.
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Health Source-Consumer Edition This rich collection of consumer health information provides access to full-text consumer health magazines and reference books. It also includes searchable full text for current health pamphlets.
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MedlinePlus MedlinePlus is an online information service produced by the United States National Library of Medicine. The service provides curated consumer health information in English and Spanish.
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PubMed PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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Wiley Medical and Nursing Collection There are about 400 Wiley full text journals available in Medicine and Nursing area out of all the resources in Wiley Online Library. To browse the collection, scroll down and click Medicine or Nursing under Subject. Use Publication Finder to find the journals needed and available at SJMC.
Nursing CEUs
In the State of California, Registered nurses are required by law to complete 30 contact hours of continuing education every two years. SJMC Medical Library has print and electronic resources available for our nurses to help meet their CE requirements.
- ClinicalKey for Nursing CE: Read Clinical Skills needed and earn CE credits. See the attached document below to follow the steps..
- CINAHL® Plus with Full Text CE: See the attached document below to follow the steps.
- Medscape Nurse CE: Medscape, LLC ("Medscape") is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing nursing education
- UpToDate CE for Nurse Practitioner: Create and Log into your personal account first to be linked. UpToDate is also accredited by the American Association of NursePractitioners (AANP) to award NP CE contact hours.
- My FREE CE for Nurses: Fee Based. No DH group plan is available.
Nursing Position Statements and Diagnosis Information
CSH Nursing Research and Evidence Based Practice (Internal)
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Evidence-Based Practice is the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, the best research evidence into the decision making process for patient care.
- EBP Approval Process
- EBP Educational Workshop Series
- EBP Resources :Johns Hopkins Evidence Based Practice tools
- Ovid Synthesis
- Research is the systematic investigation, including research development, testing, and evaluation designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge.
- Research Support
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CSHRI oversees research across the enterprise sponsoring over 92 sites of care in the US, over 650 Clinical Trials, 4000 patients enrolled annually and access to cancer research through the NCI Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP)
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ALL potential research studies must undergo institutional review board (IRB) determination at CommonSpirit Health. Note: students should obtain their school IRB approval first, then undergo CommonSpirit Health IRB approval
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CSHRI Institutional Review Board : CSHRI-IRB@commonspirit.org
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Research Institute National Team: ResearchInstituteInquiries@commonspirit.org
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- Research Support
Nursing Tutorial - Evidence Based Practice
What is Evidence-Based Practice?
Evidence-Based Nursing is, “an ongoing process by which evidence, nursing theory and the practitioners’ clinical expertise are critically evaluated and considered, in conjunction with patient involvement, to provide delivery of optimum nursing care for the individual” .
EBN is an approach to practice that is intended to improve the safety and effectiveness of nursing care and practices.
6 Steps of EBP: Evidence-based practice consists of six steps:
ASK a Clinical question
SEARCH literatures to see if there is an evidnece to answer your question
APPRAISE the level of evidence of the information you got.
INTEGRATE the findings into your practice
EVALUATE how the practice change went well
DISSEMINATE what you find either by wriitng an article of presenting at a conference
Also consider the Type of Question you are asking and determine what Study Type might be most relevant.
- Most Clinical Questions: Meta-analyses, systematic reviews
- Therapy: Randomized Controlled Trial
- Diagnosis: Prospective, blind controlled trial compared to gold standard
- Prognosis: Cohort study, case control, case series/case report
- Etiology/Harm: Randomized Controlled Trial > Cohort Study > Case control > Case series
A collection of articles from American Journal of Nursing were developed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to implement EBP consistently, one step at a time.This series has received the Nursing Media Award for Print from Sigma Theta Tau International Awards for Nursing Excellence.
Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step
Provided by Penn State University Library
Nursing Journals
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More Journals on ClincialKey for Nursing More than 60 Elsevier Nursing Journals are available for full test. Click the link to browse or search for the journals.
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More Wiley Journals More than 400 Wiley journals in Medicine and Nursing are available. Click the link to search for Wiley Journals.
Clinical Practice Guidelines
- ECRI Guidelines Trust
Requires free account registration. Publicly available web-based repository of objective, evidence-based clinical practice guideline content.
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Best Practice Guidelines - Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
- AHRQ - EPC Evidence Reports
Complete titles of released evidence reports, comparative effectiveness reviews, technical briefs, Technology Assessment Program reports, and U.S. Preventive Services Task Force evidence syntheses.
- Cochrane Library
Search Cochrane Reviews, Protocols and Clinical Answers.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
The NCCN guidelines are FREE! Register for a free account, then click on the cancer types to display a drop down of options.
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Recommendations - US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)
- UpToDate
Selected specific new recommendations and/or updates that may change usual clinical practice.