The nurse participating on the hospital research committee is assigned the task of reviewing literature for the project. The nurse considers which method the most efficient for finding appropriate information?
1. Seeking journals in the nursing library.
2. Looking for articles at the medical library.
3. Using Google to search for medical information..
4. Accessing bibliographic databases online.
4. Accessing bibliographic databases online.
Rationale:
Accessing databases online can pinpoint those journals and projects that relate directly to the research project. Trying to find applicable articles and journals in any library is time consuming and may result in inappropriate material that cannot be filtered by hand the way it can by a computer. Google is not an efficient avenue for accessing nursing research.
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