Do you want to learn more about how to read and understand research articles?  The British Medical Journal has a series of articles to help.
• How to read a paper: The Basics of Evidence Based Medicine
• How to read a paper:  getting your bearings (deciding what the paper is about)
• How to read a paper: Assessing the methodological quality of published papers
• How to read a paper: The Mdeline Database
• How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. I: Different types of data need different statistical test
• How to read a paper: Statistics for the non-statistician. II: "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
• How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
• How to read a paper: Papers that go beyond numbers (qualitative research)
• How to read a paper: Papers that report drug trials
• How to read a paper: Papers that summarise other papers (systematic reviews and meta-analyses)
• How to read a paper: Papers that report diagnostic or screening test
• How to read a paper: Papers that tell you what things cost (econimic analyses)

More information on understanding research can be found in textbooks and journal articles.
• Understanding Effect Size: How It's Measured and What It Means (Medscape free registration required to view)
• Understanding and critiquing quantitative research papers
• A Simple guide to randomized control trials in wound care
• Synthesizing data from qualitative research
• A methodology for evaluating wound care technologies in the context of treatment and care
• Opinion Paper: Does wound care require an alternative to the randomized trial to evaluate product effectiveness

Stats for the Health Professional (free Medscape registration required)
• Waterboarding and Wilcoxon: What Medical Researchers Might Learn About Statistics From the CIA
• Let's Dance! The Sample Size Samba
• Statistics Is Unscientific! (Well, as Clinicians See it, Anyway)
• Statistics Is Unscientific! (As Practiced by Clinicians: Part II)
• Shoot First and Ask Questions Later: How to Approach Statistics Like a Real Clinician
• Surviving Survival Analysis: Why Censoring Is No Bad Thing
• Three Statistical Errors That Are Totally Trivial but Which Matter a Great Deal
• Lead Time, or How to Live Longer but Die at the Same Time
• How to Win the Marathon: A Common Statistical Error Can Help
• To P or Not to P: Why Use a P Value, Anyway?
• Michael Jordan Won't Accept the Null Hypothesis: Notes on Interpreting High P Values
• Why Does Chutes and Ladders Explain Hemoglobin Levels? Some Thoughts on the Normal Distribution
• Look at Your Garbage Bin: It May Be the Only Thing You Need to Know About Statistics
• Statistical Ties, and Why You Shouldn't Wear One
• If the Normal Distribution Is So Normal, How Come My Data Never Are?
• Regression to the Mike: A Statistical Explanation of Why an Eligible Friend of Mine Is Still Single (and Some Implications for Medical Research)
• Does Medical Research Help Us Make Better Clinical Decisions? 
• Why Mr. Jones Got Surgery Even If He Didn't: Intention-to-Treat Analysis 
• Most Americans Think They Drive Better Than Average: Why They Are Right and What This Means for Medicine
• How to Create a Nice Graph for a Research Paper, and Why Your High School Math Teacher Was Right

How to Search for Articles
• PubMed
• Go PubMed
• Mednar

Abstracts are viewable on Pubmed.  Some full articles are available as well.  You may be able to obtain full-text articles from several other sources.  First, speak with the librarian at your facility.  Many hospitals have article services that provide staff with articles in their areas of interest.  Some are able to obtain articles from other facilities through inter-library loan, or through electronic means.

Another source for articles is colleges and universities.  Many colleges have electronic libraries.  Some offer those resources to alumni.  Most will provide library privileges to adjunct faculty.  If you guest lecture at an academic program, or serve as a clinical instructor, speak with the department chair and the librarian to see what access you are entitled to.  Also contact public colleges and universities in your area.  Often those are accessible to all state taxpayers.

Finally, some journals make articles available for free on their websites after a period of time.  Check their websites for availability. You will find a list of wound journals on our site.

Prevalence and incidence studies
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has prepared materials on performing pressure ulcer prevalence and incidence studies. www.npuap.org

Ethics
• NIH Ethics Videocasting series, stream or download podcast (8 sessions)
• NIH Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Clinical Research Lectures (22 lectures)
• Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research (NIH Office of Extramural Research)
• Protection of Third Party Information in Research: Recommendations of the National Institutes of Health to the Office for Human Research Protections
• Questions and Answers about The NIH Policy and Guidelines on The Inclusion of Children as Participants in Research Involving Human Subjects
• Research Involving Individuals with Questionable Capacity to Consent:  Points to Conside
• Office of Human Subjects Research Information Sheets (21 information sheets/forms)
• National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
• Bioethics QuickBibs (bibliographies on many topics)
• Quick Links: Resources on Clinical Research Ethics
• Medical Research Council  (14 articles)
• The Globalization of Clinical Trials: A Growing Challenge in Protecting Human Subjects
• NIH & Clinical Research
• International Ethical Guidelines, Codes, Regulations, Policies and Declarations
•  Ethical Issues in International Research

Research Methodology
• Emerging Methods in Comparative Effectiveness and Safety: Symposium Overview and Summary 
• Methodologic Challenges to Studying Patient Safety and Comparative Effectiveness
• Creating and Synthesizing Evidence With Decision Makers in Mind: Integrating Evidence From Clinical Trials and Other Study Designs
• Improving Depiction of Benefits and Harms: Analyses of Studies of Well-Known Therapeutics and Review of High-Impact Medical Journals
• Design of Cluster-Randomized Trials of Quality Improvement Interventions Aimed at Medical Care Providers
• Practice-Based Evidence Study Design for Comparative Effectiveness Research
• Using Inverse Probability-Weighted Estimators in Comparative Effectiveness Analyses With Observational Databases
• Use of Propensity Score Technique to Account for Exposure-Related Covariates: An Example and Lesson
• Adjustments for Unmeasured Confounders in Pharmacoepidemiologic Database Studies Using External Information
• Office of Human Subjects Research Information Sheets (21 information sheets/forms)
• Proposed Regulations and Draft Guidances on Good Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials
• Guidances, Information Sheets, and Important Notices on Good Clinical Practice in FDA-Regulated Clinical Trials
• Educational Materials About Good Clinical Practice and Clinical Trials
• Let's Dance! The Sample Size Samba
• PhenX Toolkit

Research Funding
• AAWC research scholarships
• GrantsNet
• National Science Foundation
• NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices
• Smith & Nephew Foundation
• Directory of Grants and Fellowships in the Global Health Sciences
• Office of Extramural Research
• AHRQ Funding Opportunities
• Grant Writing Tips Sheets
• Grant-writing Tools for Non-profit Organizations