NC LIVE Nursing Resources Allen Mosteller 60 minute class Please log in to NC LIVE in a separate window

Class Outline  Introduction (5 min)  CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Results (10 min)  CINAHL: User Keyword Search Exercise (5 min)  Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (10 min)  Health Source: Student Exercise (5 min)  Additional Medical Resources (10 min)  Exploration & Practice Using Additional Resources (10 min)  Q & A and Discussion (5 min)  Evaluations

CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Subjects: nursing, allied health, biomedicine, alternative medicine, and consumer health. Indexes books, dissertations, conference proceedings, book chapters, journals, etc. Includes 2,960 journals – over 597 in full text. PDF backfiles to 1981 are also included. Searchable by keyword(s) or phrase in either Basic or Advanced Search.

Beginning Searching: Keywords Advanced search better than basic – Structured search boxes with Boolean/wildcards – Field searching Keyword searching – Anywhere in record (default) – Specific field Search results provide Subject Terms options to help narrow or refine search results.

Search Examples Using Advanced Search in CINAHL: 1.evidence based practice And osteoporosis And male 2.evidence based practice And female And post- menopausal

“Refining” Your Search: Limits Wide variety of limits available: – Type of article – Research area – Language – Age – Full text – Date published – Peer reviewed journals – Research journals

Building and Saving Searches: Search History/Alerts Return to previous search Refine previous search Combine searches Save searches to run later and/or to have updates sent automatically Print out record of searches performed Put in a personal database

CINAHL Citation Record Easily switch between this & full text Main indexing terms are hyperlinked – Author, journal, etc. – Major & minor subject headings

Let’s Practice! A nursing student has come to you for help in finding information for a case study that she is researching. She needs to find information on evidence based practice. Do a keyword search in CINAHL for some preliminary results. Let us know what you found?

Saving Results: The Folder Click the “Add to Folder” icon next to an article to temporarily save it within the database – These are remembered in further searches in one session Click “Folder has Items” to see saved articles Can print/save/ individual articles Also can save/ entire searches and collections of articles using MyEBSCOhost

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition 550 scholarly full text journals – Abstracts and indexing for over 850 journals. Merriam-Webster's Medical Desk Dictionary Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

CINAHL vs. Health Source Health Source Secondary resource 550 full text/850 indexed journals Standard EBSCO limits No controlled vocabulary Additional non- literature resources CINAHL Core nursing resource 597 full text/ 2,960 indexed journals Extensive limits CINAHL Subject Headings Literature only

Metasearching in EBSCOhost All NC LIVE EBSCOhost databases can be cross- searched at once – Using EZ search from NC LIVE – Using EBSCOhost “Choose Databases” link Allows for using one search to look in lots of places – Use caution!

Metasearching Nursing Databases Choose “Databases” tab (top of screen) – Gets to list of all available databases in EBSCO Click boxes next to databases of interest – CINAHL, Health Source: Nursing, PsycInfo, Health Source: Consumer – Click “Continue” to get to search Only keyword searching is available Limits break out by database

Let’s Practice! Using the EBSCO metasearch, look for articles for our fictional nursing student on evidence based practice. What databases are most useful to search together? What new information did you find?

NC Live Internet Resources Medline Plus: Authoritative medical information for professionals and consumers PubMed: Bibliographic information covering a variety of medical disciplines National Cancer Institute: Comprehensive accurate, up-to-date cancer information. …and so many more useful resources for nursing information and research…

Let’s Practice! Using the search terms we used with our database searches, or some of your own, explore and search a few of the internet resources we looked at.

What Have We Learned? CINAHL is the primary database for clinical and academic literature in nursing and allied health CINAHL’s limits, subject headings, and journals indexes allow for powerful searching

What Else Have We Learned? About 20% of journals in CINAHL are available with full text Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is also an excellent option for nursing information You can search multiple EBSCO databases at once to expand options NC Live website links (MedlinePlus, PubMed, etc.) provide useful academic resources for research

Discussion Questions What do you want to know more about? Where do you see these resources as useful?

Thank you for attending! Additional Questions?? or if you need reference assistance… Instructor Contact Information Allen Mosteller – Reference/Public Services/Instruction Librarian NC Master Trainer