Instruction & Faculty Outreach Librarian
Welcome
Welcome! This guide is designed for SMU students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Program.
Use this guide to access research tools associated with your field.
If you have questions, please email the library, stop by the reference desk, or utilize our 24/7 chat.
Key Resources
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new window
CINAHL, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, provides full-text articles from nursing and allied health journals. Additional materials include full-text evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons, and continuing education modules.
- Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowThe Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
Access note: Cochrane reviews are freely available 12 months after publication and all protocols are freely available immediately. Other material is not available, but may be accessible through interlibrary loan. - Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new windowProQuest Nursing and Allied Health contains a diverse mix of scholarly literature, clinical training videos, reference materials, and evidence-based resources, including dissertations and systematic reviews.
- Ovid Nurse Anesthesia Journals This link opens in a new windowThis database searches and provides the full text of 14 popular nurse anesthesia journals including Anesthesia & Analgesia, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine.
- MEDLINE (PubMed) This link opens in a new windowMEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's free, online journal citation database. It includes abstracts/citations from more than 5,200 scholarly journals covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the pre-clinical sciences. PubMed encompasses everything from MEDLINE, plus eBooks and other science citations. Tip: To find the full text of an article in PubMed/MEDLINE, select the article title in the search results. On the next page, select one of the full text buttons on the top right. If there's no link, you can still request the article through interlibrary loan.
