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Nursing Resources for Research

Mount Saint Mary College

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Prof. Murphy, September 15, 2011

Learning Objectives

• review research resources

• review effective strategies for searching and accessing nursing resourcesresources

• 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

– Which are accurate and valid?

Requires your time to evaluate– Requires your time to evaluate

• Does not include information found in library databases of scholarly journals

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Databases are key

• Premium online subscription information resources

• Online collections of journal and newspaper articles, scholary newspaper articles, scholary information from published works

• Searchable

• Often contain full-text articles

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How to start?• Put the problem in the form

of a question

• Search• Search

• Examine your results

• Revise your search question if needed

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Question-basedliterature review strategy

What is the problem?“Old folks fall down a lot.”

What is the question?“Are there any interventions that can be

used to prevent falls in elderly people?”

What are the question’s concepts?1: intervention 2: prevention

3: elderly 4: falls

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General Rule

Start big

then

narrow downnarrow downIs the reason for 0 results because there

is nothing in the ______ databaseor

(more likely)were the wrong words used?

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Search Engines & Sites

• Medstory

• Virginia Henderson Nursing Library

Library Databases

• Nursing Center

• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health

Other Resources

Virginia Henderson Nursing Library

• Open Access Journals

• Medscape

and Allied Health Resource

• Health Source Nursing/Academic edition

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Review

• Search databases (not Google)

• Overview of nursing resourcesresources

• Turn problem into question

• On to the live demo!!!

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Thank you

Denise A. Garofalo

Systems & Catalog Services Librarian

20 This presentation available online at http://libraryguides.msmc.edu/nursing_general