Are you a Nurse interested in research?
If you need support or guidance in regard to a research project, abstract writing, grant application or getting published, please reach out:
Nursing Research Institute (Research collaboration through ACU, St. Vincent's Sydney, St. Vincent's Melbourne and Allied Health research) Some resources will not be accessible to SVHM staff due to IP network identification. SVHM contact person: K McBrearty.
SVHM Education and Learning site
Education and Learning (overview) -Education and Learning for Nurses
Nursing Education Please see short courses and workshops through: Continuing education site
(Nursing Libguide last updated 04/12/2023)
Use your SVHM login to access resources offsite. E-mail and network password.
You should only be prompted once per browser session to log in. Please note that some news items only have Intranet access.
If you do not know your password or it has expired, please contact the IT help desk on SVHA 1300 518 001.
EBP and The Research Process - Step by Step
Evidence-Based Practice, Step by Step
This series coordinated by the Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing at Rockefeller University is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation. The articles are accompanied by a podcast offering more insight and context from the author.
Collection (use onsite access or Libkey access)
Nursing Research, Step By Step
This series coordinated by the Heilbrunn Family Center for Research Nursing at Rockefeller University is designed to give nurses the knowledge and skills they need to participate in research, step by step. Each column will present the concepts that underpin evidence-based practice—from research design to data interpretation
Collection (use onsite access otherwise some articles are free - for others please log in by using LibKey. See LibKey Nomad-Video
General nursing research - support pages
Clinical research nurses - Nursing Times magazine journal (1-3 articles downloaded with a free registration)
Writing & Publishing
Writing for Publication for Nurses (English Edition)
An Easy-To-Follow Guide for Nurses. Copyright © 2000-2019 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., or related companies.
Feature articles
If an artificial intelligence chatbot wrote a scientific article, how would we know?, 2023
Roger Watson, Siobhan O’Connor. Nurse Author Ed. 2023; 33(1-2): 6-9.
Full text
Crafting a meaningful nursing peer review, 2023
Jennifer Chicca, Teresa Shellenbarger. Nurse Author & Editor. Some Free content.
Full text
Engaging nurses in research awareness using a new style of hospital journal club - a descriptive evaluation, 2022
Leonard A, Power N, Mayet S, Coetzee M, North N. Nurse Education Today. 108:105123, 2022 Jan.
Full text
A practical guide to data analysis in general literature reviews, 2021
Rebecca Popenoe et al. Nordic Journal of Nursing Research. Volume 41, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 175-186.
Full text
Undertaking a literature review: a step-by-step approach, 2013
Patricia Cronin, Frances Ryan, Michael Coughlan, British Journal of Nursing, Online 2013.
Full text
How to Do a Systematic Review: A Best Practice Guide for Conducting and Reporting Narrative Reviews, Meta-Analyses, and Meta-Syntheses, 2019 Andy P. Siddaway, Alex M. Wood, and Larry V. Hedges. Annual Review of Psychology 2019 70:1, 747-770
Full text
Read a Paper
BMJ Education And Debate, (Article series, Trisha Greenhalgh.)
How to read a paper. Getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about).
Greenhalgh, Trisha BMJ: British Medical Journal, 315:7102 (1997): 243.
Full text
How to read a paper: Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
Trisha Greenhalgh. BMJ 1997; 315: 305 (Published 02 Aug 1997).
Full text
How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
Trisha Greenhalgh, Rod Taylor. BMJ 1997; 315: 740 (Published 20 Sep 1997)
Full text
How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical tests
Trisha Greenhalg, BMJ 1997.
Full text
How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: “Significant” relations and their pitfalls
Full text
Australian resources AU 
Research evidence into practice - Methods
Joanna Briggs Institute
https://jbi.global/
JBI Reviewer's Manual JBI's description and methodology of planning and undertaking systematic reviews
The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness
Evidence-based answers to clinical questions for busy clinicians.
Melbourne, Vic: The Centre for Clinical Effectiveness, Southern Health. Harris C & Turner T. 2011.
"This article goes through the process of developing your search question, doing your search and appraising the evidence identified.
PICO explanation". Excellent Workbook.
Full text
Nursing Journals Directory
The Nursing Journals Directory, a joint service of Nurse Author & Editor and INANE. The Directory is a joint service of INANE and Nurse Author & Editor, which is Edited by Leslie H. Nicoll, PhD, MBA, RN, FAAN. (Access - some free content). SVHM does not hold all journals - please check catalogue first.
Journal Directory List
Systematic Review database
Cochrane Library
see our library homepage/databases
Epistemonikos Database
https://www.epistemonikos.org/en/
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of health evidence. It is the largest source of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making, and a large source of other types of scientific evidence. It is a not for profit, open access database. Epistemonikos aim is to identify all of the systematic reviews relevant for health decision-making. The main focus is on systematic reviews and human indexers/searches as well as computer machine language searches across multiple databases to consolidate the evidence for systematic review topics.
Trip database, see Clinician's Health Channel
VCCC Alliance
The VCCC Alliance is a powerful partnership of 10 leading research, academic and clinical institutions, working together to fundamentally reshape the way we tackle cancer.
Training & education- workshop seminars
Australian Nursing Podcasts 2023
(by The Nurse Break Team | Feb 5, 2023 | Australian Nursing Blog, Graduates & Students, Leadership & Management, Nurse Educators, Nursing Podcasts)
Infection Control Matters
Evidence-Based Geriatric Nursing Protocols for Best Practice by 
Nurse Educator's Guide to Best Teaching Practice by 
Oxford Handbook of Medical Statistics by 
Presenting Medical Statistics from Proposal to Publication by 
Nursing research : generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice by 
Leadership in nursing : experiences from the European Nordic Countries by 
Person-centred nursing research : methodology, methods and outcomes by 
Evidence-based practice across the health professions by 
How to read a paper : the basics of evidence-based medicine by 
Nursing and midwifery research : methods and appraisal for evidence-based practice : Australian and New Zealand edition by 
Research in nursing : evidence for best practice by 
