The nurse researcher is conducting research about nursing interventions used in the treatment of a specific disease state. The researcher would like to include evidence for and against the effectiveness of treatments for the disease in the review of literature. Which database should the researcher access?
1. Medline Plus
2. Cochrane database of systematic reviews
3. CINAHL
4. Science Direct
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Rationale 1: MedlinePlus is a website for consumer health information.
Rationale 2: The Cochrane database examines and includes the best evidence that is available in the literature about healthcare interventions.
Rationale 3: CINAHL is the basic CINAHL database and contains around 3,000 journals, but no full text is available.
Rationale 4: Science Direct provides abstracting and indexing for peer-reviewed journals and books, but the amount of full text is limited by subscription.
Global Rationale:
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