Evidence-Based Practice for Nurses

CHAPTER OBJECTIVES

KEY TERMS

At the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

‹ Explain why performing a quality
literature review is an essential skill
for nursing students, researchers, and
nurses
‹ Differentiate between searching for
evidence and literature in lay and
professional sources
‹ Explain the scientific literature
publication cycle
‹ Differentiate between primary and
secondary sources
‹ Identify different types of articles
found in the literature
‹ Characterize the four major types of
reviews

‹ Identify and use a variety of sources,

both within and outside of the field of

nursing, as appropriate

‹ Explain how the sources are

structured

‹ Distinguish between the different

sources’ content, in both topic or

subject matter and in format

‹ Perform various types of searches

using basic and advanced source tools

and search techniques

‹ List four databases where scholarly

literature of disciplines is indexed

‹ Consider the ethical presentation and

application of evidence

Boolean operators
call number
CINAHL
citation chasing
controlled vocabularies
electronic indexes
exploding
grey literature
indexes
integrative review
interlibrary loan
journal
keyword
magazine

meta-analyses

narrative reviews

nesting

peer review

periodical

plagiarism

popular literature

positional operators

precision

primary sources

print index

qualification

recall

record

scholarly literature

scientific literature

publication cycle

search field

secondary sources

stopwords

subject headings

subject searching

systematic reviews

trade literature

truncation

wildcards