Subject Guides: Nursing: Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)

Recommended Databases

Below are important databases for nursing research. For a complete list of databases, click here.
CINAHL Complete
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PubMed @NU
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PsycINFO

Cochrane Library

Survey Design

Survey Design and Implementation
In Hageman, K., Kim, A., Sanchez, T. & Bertolli, J. (2015). Survey design and implementation. In Guest, G., & Namey, E. Public health research methods (pp. 341-378). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications, Inc.

Designing & Doing Survey Research by Andres, Lesley
ISBN: 9781849208130
Publication Date: 2012

Data Collection
In Byrne, D. (2017). What is survey research?. Sage Research Methods. Project Planner. 10.4135/9781526408563.

APA Publication Manual

APA 7th edition (look for Reference List: Books, Articles, Electronic Sources and APA Sample paper). From Purdue OWL.

Comparison chart of the 6th and 7th editions (from College of DuPage Library)

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Research Design

Sage Research Methods: Design and plan your research project. Learn how to define your research topic, review the literature, develop a researchable question, collect, analyze and interpret data.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking for Health

"Design thinking is a framework to generate innovative solutions through creative problem-solving". "The course has five modules: Empathy, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. Each module represents a stage in the Design Thinking process. For each module, there is material for you to watch, listen, read and do, with activities to help bring it all to life". This course was created by the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and the Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation.

Systems Thinking

"Systems thinking is an approach to understanding and improving complex issues and situations. It attempts to deal with these as wholes rather than through the reductionism of conventional science. Reductionism understands complex issues by examining smaller and smaller parts. Systems thinking sees the whole as different from the sum of its parts, because of the interactions between the parts. The issue for systems thinkers then becomes one of defining a relevant whole". Coghlan, D., & Brydon-Miller, M. (2014). The SAGE encyclopedia of action research (Vols. 1-2). London, : SAGE Publications Ltd.

Readings

Systems Thinking and Practice for Action Research
In Reason, P., & Bradbury, H. The SAGE handbook of action research (pp. 139-158). : SAGE Publications Ltd
Systems Thinking
In Coghlan, D., & Brydon-Miller, M. (2014). The SAGE encyclopedia of action research (Vols. 1-2). London, : SAGE Publications Ltd
How Change Happens: the Implications of Complexity and Systems Thinking for Action Research
In Burns, D. (2015). How change happens: the implications of complexity and systems thinking for action research. In Bradbury, H. The SAGE Handbook of action Research (pp. 434-445). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd
Systems and Systems Thinking
In Mathison, S. (2005). Encyclopedia of evaluation (Vols. 1-0). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

DNP Research Essentials

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