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Nursing and Allied Health: Step 1: Exploring Your Topic

Guide to NUS Libraries' Resources for Nursing

Step 1: Exploring Your Topic

Exploring Your Topic (4 parts)

This series of videos shows the followings:

  • Typical process of a systematic review

Tawfik, G. M., Dila, K., Mohamed, M., Tam, D., Kien, N. D., Ahmed, A. M., & Huy, N. T. (2019). A step by step guide for conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis with simulation data. Tropical medicine and health, 47, 46. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41182-019-0165-6 

  • PRISMA flow diagram

To download PRISMA flow diagram: http://www.prisma-statement.org/PRISMAStatement/FlowDiagram

  • PICO framework

NUS Systematic Review guide PICO framework: https://libguides.nus.edu.sg/c.php?g=145717&p=2948890

  • Other library resources had been introduces to help generating research topics.

Links to the useful resources are listed after the video. Please download the video and to find out when and how to use those useful resources.

Part 1 – Introduction to the Systematic literature searching

Power Point slides for the Part 1 video

 

List of Resources/Libguides being mentioned in this video:

NUS Libraries Systematic Reviews guide provides an overview of how to conduct a Systematic Review Search.

Sage Research Methods provided a project planner for you to find relevant books on different stages in your research.

The Project Planner organizes content in a linear fashion, by each step of the research process, starting with the philosophy of research all the way to dissemination of findings. It serves as a step-by-step guide throughout any research project. Maybe you're at the start of a project and you want to learn about how to define your topic, or maybe you're at the end of your project and are starting to write an article about your research. 

Part 3 – Introduction to preliminary/scoping search

Power Point slides for the Part 3 video

 

List of Resources/Libguides being mentioned in this video:

Watch this video created by NUS Libraries to learn how to get many papers by using just 1 research paper. You can do this by tracing the references listed in the reference list of the research paper (backward search) and tracing other documents citing the research paper (forward search).

Part 2 - Look for research topics that interests you!

Power Point slides for the Part 2 video

 

List of Resources/Libguides being mentioned in this video:

ScholarBank@NUS is the digital institutional repository (IR) of the National University of Singapore (NUS).

BrowZine delivers thousands of academic journals to your Web Browser, iPad, iPhone or Android tablet. You may want to install and browse the table of contents of recent issues of nursing publications to familiarize with the subject you are interested.

July 2015 BrowZine "Be Inspired" video showcasing BrowZine on the Web.

Part 4 – Conduct preliminary/scoping search

Power Point slides for the Part 4 video

 

List of Resources/Libguides being mentioned in this video:

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) is the leading journal and database for systematic reviews in health care. CDSR includes Cochrane Reviews (systematic reviews) and protocols for Cochrane Reviews as well as editorials and supplements.

Clinical Queries are search tools designed to retrieve targeted results to clinical questions. Access Clinical Queries from the PubMed home page.