Los Angeles Valley College Library: Nursing Resources at the LAVC Library: PubMed

PubMed

PubMed
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, is a popular information database in the medical and health sciences fields. It includes articles from all areas of health, allied health, medicine, nursing, nutrition, and biomedical sciences.

Many colleges subscribe to different interfaces of PubMed, but the free online version maintained by the U.S. government is actually quite good. It allows you to search using the MeSH vocabulary, narrow your search to just clinical trials (for example), and limit your search to articles freely available online (in what they call "PubMed Central").

To access PubMed, click on the link above (in blue), or, go to this URL:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Getting Started: Instructional Materials

The factsheet and videos above should provide you with enough instructions/examples to start conducting searches in PubMed. If you're interested in going a little deeper into what's possible in PubMed, however, we recommend taking 30 minutes to work your way through the training course below. Additionally, more material can be found at the National Library of Medicine's "PubMed Online Training" page.

Training Course: PubMed for Nurses

Using PubMed in Evidence-Based Practice [30 mins]
This tutorial was created to help nurses develop a clinical question using the PICO framework and efficiently find biomedical literature using PubMed. In less than 30 minutes, you'll learn how to set up a search in PubMed, use filters, find clinically-relevant articles, and use MyNCBI to save searches and citations.