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Evidence-Based Practice: 2. Acquire

This guide will help you work through the process of Evidence-Based Practice.

Building a Search and Finding Evidence

During this step of the EBP process, you will need to find and access the evidence. You will need to

  1. Identify where to find information (i.e., which databases to search)
  2. Build a search strategy
  3. Find evidence (by searching the databases)
  4. Access the research (getting the full-text)

The process of selecting a database, finding search terms, conducting a database search (using boolean operators and filters), and refining yours search can be complicated. Each of these steps are discussed in more detail in our Searching for Health Sciences Research guide.

Getting Full-Text...

When you find article citations that look promising, you can access them through library databases; for any articles that we do not have immediate access to, you can request via Interlibrary Loan. Take a look at the SNHP Online Library Orientation for more information on access full-text.

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