Literature Searching: Nursing Administration Min-Lin Fang, MLIS Education and Information Consultant for Nursing and Social and Behavioral Sciences

2 Objectives At the end of lecture, you will be able to Find an article quickly Develop search strategies and conduct efficient PubMed searches Select appropriate databases Identify MeSH(s) and use MeSH(s) to run PubMed searches Use subheadings, major concepts and limit options to refine searches Save searches and set up an automatic updates Conduct simple searches in CINAHL, PsycINFO, SocAbstracts

3 Online Tutorials PubMed Search Guide (NLM) Literature Searching Guide for Nursing Students pdfhttp:// pdf (Fang) CSA PsycINFO, SocAbstracts online tutorials CINAHL, Basic and Advanced

4 Special URL: UC-eLinks Links to UCSF full text journals Check whether UCSF owns a journal Check all UC libraries collection using Melvyl Request articles not owned by UCSF from other UC campuses Copy and Paste citations Online Help: UC-eLinks QuickGuideUC-eLinks QuickGuide

5 Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 1 Enter the PMID number. Reed PG. The dialogue within nursing theory-guided practice: a frontier of knowledge and development. Reed PG. Nurs Sci Q Oct;19(4): PMID: [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

6 Quick Way to Find an Article in PubMed - 2

7 Databases UptoDate (PubMed online tutorial by NLM)PubMed online tutorial CINAHL (Basics, Advanced Search tutorial)Basics, Advanced PsycINFO (CSA) (Quick Guide)(Quick Guide) SocAbstracts (CSA) PAIS Web of Science (Find who has cited these articles, when you retrieved few citations from other databases.) Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection Medical Economics: CINAHL, Business Source Premier, EconLit NOTE: Nursing Subject Guide: Subject Guide:

8 Management & Organization Studies: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 1947-Current Browse Full Text Browse Full Text Organizations studies, management, business, human resource, marketing, public policy, public administration, industrial relations

9 Developing Search Strategies Formulate a question. Break your question into multiple concepts. Locate the appropriate MeSH (indexed term) for each concept. Run the search using AND, OR, NOT Apply limit options (date, language, age, publication type, gender), major headings and subheadings Modify your search strategies and rerun your search.

10 Boolean Operators (upper case) AND Combine different concepts to narrow your search. aged AND women  aged women OR Broaden your search to include similar concepts. HIV OR AIDS  AIDS patients NOT Exclude a concept AIDS NOT hearing aids  AIDS patients

11 Why Use MeSH (Indexed Term)? MeSH terms (indexed terms) are an efficient way to find articles on “concepts” where authors may use different words to discuss the same ideas. Using MeSH improves precision and accuracy of subject searching. Keyword search (title, MeSH, abstract) may not retrieve relevant articles. Example: physical therapy “Storytelling as therapy: implications for medicine.” Abstract: Storytelling is an art developed during the beginning of human history, probably to teach the wisdom of generations past, including basic mental and physical health principles…

12 When to use Keyword search? New studies not yet indexed e.g. PubMed – in process PubMed – as supplied by publisher Do a keyword search and limit search results for the past one year. search sample: Obesity policy

13 Locating MeSH Do a keyword search. Click on “Details” to see the assigned MeSH. OR Do a title word search e.g. nursing theory [ti] Display citations in Citation format to locate MeSH OR Search the MeSH database 1. Scope Note 2. Subheadings 3. Major Topics 4. Explode

14 MyNCBI (Save Search, Updates) Create a free MyNCBI account Save search strategies Set user preferences – highlight search words in your retrieval.

15 Search Exercises 1.Nurses’ job satisfaction 2.Nursing recruitment/retention 3.Patient safety 4.Prevention of burnout among nurses aids who work in long term care setting 5.Health care access for Asian Americans

16 Managing Citations APA Style APA Formatting and Style Guide (Purdue Univ.) APA Formatting and Style Guide APA Style Tips (APA) APA Style Tips Publication manual of the American Psychological Association 5 th ed. (Reference book, Library, MB, SFGH) BF76.7.A RefWorks a FREE web-Based citation management tool Check the class schedule and reserve a space for the RefWorks class.class schedulereserve a space EndNote vs RefWorks

17 More… Class evaluation Getting Started Library Tours QuickSearch (beta) Personal Consultation: Contact Min-Lin Fang for personal consultation. Phone: