Research Tools

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)


Health Services Research


Alan Reifman’s Collection of Practical Statistical Resources


Statistical resources, including tutorials and calculators


Creative Research Systems

Survey sample size calculator


Eastern Nursing Research Society

A community of nurses promoting and supporting regional nursing research in the Eastern U.S.


G Power calculator

A statistical power analysis tool for many different t tests, F tests, χ2 tests, z tests and some exact tests


Interagency Collaborative on Nursing Statistics (ICONS)


Promotes the generation and utilization of data, information, and research about nurses, nursing education,
and the nursing workforce


National Institute for Nursing Research

News, research and funding announcements, training opportunities and more


Office of Human Research Protection (OHRP)


Federal guidelines for protecting human research subjects


Purdue Publishing

Free resources from the Purdue Writing Lab


Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society (STTI)


Nursing research library and resources


Southern Nursing Research Society

A site dedicated to the southern region’s nurse scientists goals of improving health outcomes through research


Statistics Calculators

Free statistical calculators


StatSoft

Free online statistics textbook


Virginia Commonwealth University Library

Getting started with research tutorials


Western Institute for Nursing Research

A diverse community of nurses with a shared commitment to advance nursing science, education, and practice to improve health outcomes in the Western U.S.