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Intro to Research for Health Science Students

Welcome!

By the end of this guide, you will be able to:
• Locate books, e-books, and research articles using the library’s discovery catalog.
• Identify subject-specific databases for nursing, medicine, and health sciences.
• Access evidence-based resources and clinical tools.
• Create a focused research question using the PICO framework.
• Extract and combine keywords effectively for database searching.
• Use filters and Boolean operators for efficient searches.