Internet Use in Daily Practice A Review of Electronic Resources for PNP Friday, September 8, Park City Jeanne Le Ber Associate Librarian Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library

Educational Objectives Conference attendees will be able to –identify online bibliographic and full text databases to answer clinical questions –search for evidence-based nursing resources in CINAHL, MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library –identify and evaluate quality websites of special interest to pediatric nurse practitioners

Presentation Outline Handouts Access issues Information literacy Databases to answer clinical questions Evidence-based search strategies Other electronic resources Identify and evaluate quality Web sites Summary and Questions

Handouts CINAHL versus MEDLINE Cochrane Collaboration Evaluation criteria for websites Selected websites

Access Issues Free resources Fee-based resources Your library subscribes for you –and allows proxy access from off-site You can subscribe individually

Information Literacy Communication Communication – –Discussion groups

Information Literacy --

Information Literacy Discussion Groups NAPNAP Practice Issues List Serve To subscribe, please send an with the subject "subscribe-practice" to

Information Literacy Discussion Groups CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists! –

Information Literacy Sources of Information Professional –Bibliographic and full text databases –Subscription sources –Associations, organizations, government agencies, commercial or company sites Patient –Consumer Health Information Web sites MEDLINEplus, healthfinder®

Databases to answer clinical questions Bibliographic –CINAHL –MEDLINE Sample citation from MEDLINE Kujdych N. Prescribing trends in the treatment of acute otitis media. Reining in resistant bacteria. Adv Nurse Pract Oct;7(10):30-5. Review.

Databases to answer clinical questions CINAHL –Produced by Cinahl Information –Nursing and allied health literature 1982-present –Bibliographic with some full-text –500+ nursing journal titles (1200 titles) –Your health sciences library subscribes –You can pay for the service $49.95 for 15 hours of searching

Databases to answer clinical questions MEDLINE –Produced by the National Library of Medicine –Primary source for medical, nursing, dental, veterinary literature –Bibliographic; PubMed does link to some full text –4300 journal titles indexed –You library subscribes to a service –Available free on the Internet

Evidence-based search strategies Diagnosis Etiology Prognosis Therapy Clinical or randomized control trials Meta-analysis Practice guidelines

PubMed for MEDLINE Start with the MeSH Browser "otitis media/etiology"[MAJR] review, english, human, last five years

Databases to answer clinical questions Full text –Cochrane Library –EBSCOhost –MICROMEDEX

Databases to answer clinical questions Full text –Cochrane Library –EBSCOhost –MICROMEDEX

Databases to answer clinical questions Full text –Cochrane Library –EBSCOhost –MICROMEDEX

Other Electronic Resources Electronic textbooks –STAT!Ref –MDConsult Electronic journals –Free –Subscription services

Other Electronic Resources Electronic textbooks –STAT!Ref –MDConsult Electronic journals –Free –Subscription services

Other Electronic Resources Electronic textbooks –STAT!Ref –MDConsult Electronic journals –Free –Subscription services

Quality Websites Identify –colleagues, association, reading –bookmark or favorites Evaluate –authority –accuracy –objectivity –currency –coverage MEDLINEplus

Summary Access to online tools – and listservs Access to online resources –bibliographic and full text databases –online textbooks –online or electronic journals –quality websites Ask your hospital or academic librarian

Questions