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Welcome

This guide is a collection of resources that will get you started with research for Nursing projects, connect you with professional reading and NCLEX preparation resources, and help you with APA citations. Stop by the library for further assistance with research for papers, posters, or presentations, and questions about citations and topic development. You can also contact us through phone or email.

Required and optional nursing textbooks we have as eBooks

Quick Access

  • Lexicomp
    Drug information database
  • List of Nursing Journals at LBCC
    A list of nursing journals that the LBCC Library has. Articles may be full-text or only briefly described, but you can easily request the full text the of the brief records.

Nursing Core Competencies

According to the Oregon Consortium of Nursing Education:

"A competent nurse, in making practice decisions, locates, evaluates and uses the best available evidence, coupled with a deep understanding of client experience and preferences, through the understanding that...

  1. There are many sources of knowledge, including research evidence, standards of care, community perspectives, practical wisdom gained from experience, which are legitimate sources of evidence for decision-making.
  2. Knowledge from the biological, social, medical, public health, and nursing sciences is constantly evolving; nurses need to update their knowledge continuously, using reliable, current sources of information.
  3. Nurses need to know how to learn new interventions independently, because the definition of “best practice” of interventions is continuously modified, and new interventions are constantly being developed."

This research guide will help you achieve this competency.

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