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Nursing, BSN and MSN (EBP Toolkit): Online Resources

Journal Databases


PICO Explained

Tutorial Video: CINAHL

Tailor your search in CINAHL

Practice Guidelines in Library Databases

In many of the ECPI Library databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, Nursing Reference Center Plus), you can can limit your search to practice guidelines.


CINAHL & MedLine

CINAHL & MedLine


Login to ECPI databases and select Nursing Reference Center Plus. Select Advanced Search, enter your search term(s), then select Practice Guidelines under Publication Type. 

EBP Metasearch

Searching to Answer a Clinical Question

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PubMed Filters

From the PubMed homepage, linked above, click on "Clinical Queries" in the middle column. 

PubMed’s Clinical Queries tool is a way to find results to assist in answering a clinical question (e.g. etiology, prognosis, diagnosis, therapy) and/or topic (e.g. diagnosis, differential diagnosis, management, genetic counseling, and so forth).