Welcome to this subject guide for students and staff from the School of Health and Social Care.
Your clinical skills as a health and social care practitioner are grounded in evidence based practice. The aim of evidence based practice (EBP) is for the clinical practices of health care professionals to be based on the best research evidence available, rather than on personal opinion or professional rituals. EBP should lead to best practice being used in all clinical areas, improving quality of care & patient safety, and increasing patient satisfaction.
This LibGuide will direct you to the most useful search tools for finding research based literature/evidence, academic sources. grey literature, and reliable health statistics, and show you how to get the best out of these tools for your studies and professional practice.
To help you get started with finding and reading evidence please see the following videos on How to Find Evidence and Reading Academic Sources, as well as further guidance in the Journals and Databases pages for more detailed information and videos on finding journal articles and searching in databases.
There is currently no Subject Librarian for the School of Health and Social Care, as the post is vacant.
Please email library@napier.ac.uk or call 0131 455 3500 and we will do our best to help with your enquiry.
The Subject Librarian team can support you with:
Finding and accessing books, journal articles, and other sources
Using online databases and search engines
Effective search strategies and techniques
Literature reviewing and systematic approaches
Evaluating information, include critical appraisal
Referencing
Reference management tools and software
These are just a few of the databases and search locations you should be using to search for evidence. The Journals and Databases tab details a fuller list of relevant resources.
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Need help with academic writing skills and critiquing ?
Have a look at the Academic Skills page on MyNapier. There are online resources to help you develop your writing skills and they also offer bookable online Webex one to one sessions.