Health & Nursing Gold/Galileo Annual Users Group Conference August 1, 2008
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Health & Nursing Resources Health Source: Consumer Edition – Consumer Health information with full text Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition – Full text and includes Lexi-Pal Drug Guide CINAHL with Full Text – Comprehensive source for Nursing & Allied Health literature (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) MEDLINE with Full Text – Comprehensive source for access to the biomedical research & clinical literature Alt Health Watch – complementary & holistic approaches to health care & wellness – includes full text
Health Source Consumer Basic Search
Result List Narrow Results/Limit Your Results from Result Screen
Results Modified Selected Exercise (from Narrow Results) Full Text & Date Limit (from Limit your results)
Medical Dictionary
Check off Box – Search Retrieve Results
Results from Medical Dictionary “Look Up”
Click on Term – Definition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Search on MRSA (infectious disease)
Limited Results By Year, Full Text
Drug Look Up – Prozac
Lexi-Pal Drug Guide Record
CINAHL with Full Text Basic Screen
Basic Search - MRSA (Note: Ehost is NOT case sensitive)
CINAHL with Full Text Advanced Search
Suggest Subject Headings Search
CINAHL Headings List of Subject Headings Relevant to MRSA
Click on Term to See Tree Views and Subheadings Select item(s); Click Search Database
Items selected – “Explode Term”, Major Concept, Subheadings
Results To further Refine Results use Narrow Results or Search Options
Available Search Options (Limiters)
Reults Limited to Full Text and Age Group Limiter of “All Child”
Search History Display Above the Results List
Search Using Limiters – Leave Find Box Blank Ex. Search for FT Nursing Research Articles
Search on “Limiters Alone” Results – FT Nursing Research Articles
Search Cited References “Find how many times an author has been cited in CINAHL”
Articles by LS Aaronson cited in articles indexed by CINAHL
Specific Citation – Use Fields to Identify Paper by Aaronson with “fatigue” in Title
Search Cited References to Find Additional Citations on a Subject – Ex. Service Dogs
MEDLINE with Full Text Basic Search MRSA search, limit to Human, English, FT
Narrow Results by Subject: Major Heading “Methicillin Resistance”
Use of Narrow Results by Major Heading Provides Fewer but More Relevant Results
Alt HealthWatch Basic Search Search Mode “Find all my search terms”
Results
Alt HealthWatch Search Options – Limit to Scholarly Publications, FT
Results FT, Scholarly Publications, Date Limit
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