title: Evidence based emergency nursing: Designing a research question and searching the literature.
abstract: The purpose of research is to discover new knowledge. All good research starts with a clear, answerable question that addresses an important and significant problem or phenomenon of interest. In this paper, emergency nurses and other clinicians will be provided with a practical guide to successfully developing a quality research question as the basis of quality research. In this paper, how to plan and prepare question development using the PICO Framework, develop a literature search strategy, and perform a search, extracting and analysing information will be detailed.
authors.affiliation: Deakin University - Eastern Health, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Electronic address: julie.considine@deakin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Considine
authors.affiliation: Griffith University & Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: Ramon Z
authors.initials: RZ
authors.lastname: Shaban
authors.affiliation: University of Technology Sydney - Northern Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Margaret
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fry
authors.affiliation: University of Sydney - St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Curtis
mesh_terms: D016529:Emergency Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods; D012106:Research / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D012107:Research Design / Q000639:trends*