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Nursing Resources for

Research

Mount Saint Mary College

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Prof. Baldwin, September 2012

Learning Objectives

• review research resources

• review effective strategies for

searching and accessing

nursing resources

• live demo

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Research resources

• Books • Databases of journal

articles

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Why not Google?

• Anyone can publish anything on

the Internet

• Millions and millions of hits– W hich are accurate and valid?

– Requires your time to evaluate

• Does not include information found

in library databases of scholarly

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Databases are key

• Premium online subscription information resources

• Online collections of journal and newspaper articles, scholary

information from published works

• Searchable

• Often contain full-text articles

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Information ‘Pyramid’

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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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How to start?

• Put the problem in the form

of a question

• Search

• Examine your results

• Revise your search question

if needed

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Question-basedliterature review strategy

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: exercise14

Question-baseddatabase selectionQ: “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

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

Medline

Autistic disorder

CINAHL

Autism, Asperger,

Pervasive Developmental

Disorder

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Review

• Search databases (notGoogle)

• 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