Library Services for Nursing

• Because library instruction is often in high demand at peak periods of the academic year, please make your request at least two weeks in advance of the desired date.
• Please provide a clear description of the course/session objective, amount of in-class time available, number of sessions needed, and whether a gradable exercise is needed.
• Sessions can range from single-session instruction on resources and basic searching to more in-depth or multi-session discussion of topics such as evidence-based healthcare, advanced literature searching, how to read and evaluate nursing literature, or health literacy.
• Faculty are welcome to propose other topics or request a consultation to discuss their course needs and how our librarians can help meet these needs.

To get support for your research:

• Resources to support your inquiry
• Search strategies to identify relevant literature
• Help defining answerable questions in the literature

Contact Sherrod Library via refdesk@etsu.edu 

Make an Appointment for Research Help

If you need evidence-based resources to inform your clinical care or case-based teaching:

• Contact the Medical Library via medref@etsu.edu.
• Please indicate the needed turnaround time and whether your question is for an urgent patient-care decision (this email is only monitored on weekdays), knowledge building for future similar cases, or to support case-based learning for a specific classroom/learning session.
• All of our medical librarians are HIPAA-trained for discussing real cases and can recommend specific articles that best answer your clinical questions. It is helpful to receive clinical questions in a PICO format but this is not required.