Graduate Student Events

May 14, 2026

Nursing Story Slam  

6:30PM - 9:00PM via Zoom 

Hosted by: Nursing Research Office 

Information Details

May 14, 2026

Workshop 1 : Setting Yourself Up for Success  1 of 3 

1100 - 1300 via Zoom 

The workshop will cover what is needed to plan your systematic review (or other evidence synthesis review) and create a review protocol that can be used to guide you through the review process.   

Topics to be covered in this session:

• Defining your question
• Creating your protocol
• Picking databases
• Developing inclusion/exclusion criteria
• Pre-scan of the literature and identifying seed papers
• Analyzing seed papers
• Keywords and subject headings

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May 21, 2026

Workshop 2: Developing Your Data Collection Strategy  2 of 3 

1100 - 1330 via Zoom 

This workshop will cover the key concepts/skills needed to create a data collection strategy for your review project. Creating a comprehensive search strategy that is designed to capture as many relevant studies as possible and is validated using a test set, is similar to designing your data collection method in an experimental study. It requires careful planning as well as knowledge of how databases work.   

Topics to be covered:

• Elements of a comprehensive search
• Designing and building a comprehensive search in one database
• Saving searches
• Validating searches using a test set
• Good data management practices

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May 28, 2026

Workshop 3: The Next Steps: Translating, tracking, reporting and study selection  3 of 3 

1100 - 1300 via Zoom 

This workshop will cover the remaining steps of the data collection phase of your systematic review/knowledge synthesis review project and introduce you to the study selection process  

Topics to be covered:

• Translating searches from one database to another
• Supplementary search techniques
• Reporting guidelines (PRISMA)
• Exporting records from databases
• Deduplicating using Covidence
• Study selection process

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