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Nursing Resources for
Research
Mount Saint Mary College
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Prof. Baldwin, NUR 501, October 2012
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Learning Objectives• review research
resources
• review effective
strategies for
searching and
accessing nursing
resources
• demo
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Research resources
BooksDatabases of
journal articles
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• Anyone can publish anything on
the Internet
Why not Google?
• Millions and millions of hits• Which are accurate and valid?
• Requires your time to evaluate
• Does not include information found in library databases of scholarly journals
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• Premium online subscription information resources
Databases are key
• Online collections of journal and newspaper articles, scholaryinformation from published works
• Searchable
• Often contain full-text articles
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Information ‘Pyramid’
Journals
Systemic reviews
Clinical Practice
Guidelines
primary research articles
CINAHL, Medline
Associated websites,
textbooks
Adapted from http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=12113514
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• Put the problem in the form of a question
How to start?
• Search
• Examine your results
• Revise your search question if needed
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Question-based
literature review strategy
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What is the problem?“I need stuff on nursing theorist Nola Pender.”
What is the question?“What scholarly articles are there on Nola Pender and her theory regarding health promoting
behaviors/exercise?”
What are the question’s concepts?1: Nola Pender 2: nursing theory
3: health promoting behavior 4: exercise
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Question-based
database selection
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Q: “What scholarly articles are there on Nola Pender and her theory regarding health promoting behaviors/exercise?”
Subject Areas:
Nursing theory, Health-promoting behavior
Databases:
Nursing, Medical
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General Rule
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Start big
then
narrow down Is the reason for 0 results because
there is nothing in the ______ databaseor
(more likely)were the wrong words used?
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Examples of Synonyms
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Medline
Autistic disorder
CINAHL
Autism, Asperger, Pervasive Developmental Disorder
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Review
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Search databases (not Google)
Overview of nursing resources
Turn problem into question
On to the live demo!!!
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Thank you Denise A. Garofalo
Systems & Catalog Services
Librarian
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This presentation available online at http://libraryguides.msmc.edu/nursing_general