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LIBRARY GUIDE TO NRS 6741 - Foundations Forensic Nursing

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  • Restricted to OU students, faculty, and staff CINAHL Complete  -comprehensive and highly-authoritative database for research in nursing and health sciences
  • Restricted to OU students, faculty, and staff ERIC  -resources in education including journal articles from research/scholarly and practitioner literature
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  • Google Scholar - Legal documents limit
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Examples of forensic nursing titles:

HARDCOPY EBOOKS
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Mariela Hristova
Associate Professor, Nursing Librarian
hristova@oakland.edu
248.370.2464

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Original Author
This guide was originally created by Julia Rodriguez, Associate Professor at Kresge Library.

Julia Rodriguez is currently the Health Sciences and Scholarly Communications Librarian. From 2008 to 2020, her professional focus also included serving as the nursing librarian and this content is the result of that work.
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EBP tutorials:
Evidence-Based Practice Quick Reference Guide (Alaska Medical Library)
Evidence-Based Practice in the Health Sciences: EBP Nursing Tutorial (UIC

Analyzing Sources & Literature Review tutorials:
Essential Elements of a Literature Review guide (UC Santa Cuz)
Conducting Literature Reviews - detailed guide (USC)
Critically Analyzing Information Sources (Cornell Libraries)


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