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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
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