A nursing student wishes to initiate a search for interesting research topics. The student decides to peruse client positioning during pulmonary artery catheter readings
Among the following, which are suitable for this topic? Select all that apply. 1. PsychINFO
2. MEDLINE
3. Google
4. CINAHL
5. PubMed
1,2,4,5
Rationale: All of these except for Google are suitable to initiate a search about client positioning during pulmonary artery catheter readings. Google pulls together a variety of sources, not all of which are medical; the other databases are medically or nursing oriented.
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