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Course description

This course guides RNs and APPs through the process of transforming a literature review into a polished research poster. Over the span of 4 months (with breaks), students will learn how to develop a research question, conduct a literature search, analyze articles, synthesize findings, and create a professional conference poster. The course culminates in a poster session event where students present their work.

Course goals 

  • Develop a focused and researchable question for a literature review. 

  • Learn effective strategies for searching academic databases.

  • Critically read and synthesize scholarly articles.

  • Organize findings systematically using spreadsheets.

  • Create a research poster that clearly communicates your review findings.

  • Gain experience presenting academic work to peers and public audiences. 

Your instructors

Bridget Linehan 

Elaina Vitale (make an appointment) 

Contact Bridget or Elaina with your questions; or to express your interest in a future offering of the series. 

Helpful resources for the series

  • CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new window Comprehensive nursing and allied health article database.
  • PubMed This link opens in a new window PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

Tip: access either of these resources from the Medical and Health Sciences Libraries. It may be helpful to get to the homepage from within Citrix if you are off-site. 

Looking to get full-text articles from another library? Information on Interlibrary Loan for DHMC users here. 

Other useful resources

Poster templates (provided during course) 

Example posters and rubrics (provided during course) 

Poster Nerd

  • Designing an Academic Poster
    by Lilly Linden Last Updated Jul 23, 2025 3250 views this year
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  • Last Updated: Nov 11, 2025 3:24 PM
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