Why Do Nurses Use Databases?

In order to ensure that an answer to a clinical question is as up to date and reliable as possible, there is a need to utilize databases that have the best information. The information to answer the question can come from different sources

such as internal evidence which is data from healthcare records to articles and journals which are considered external evidence (Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt, 2011). According to Hain & Kear (2015), "evidence-based literature comes from

many sources, and if nurses search only one source, important information will be missed" (p. 13). Use of different databases is necessary to gather comprehensive information on a research question. It is also vital that the database

chosen has peer reviewed articles that