Finding Nursing Articles

November 23, 2010LeAnn Wellerlweller1@unm.edu925-8993

Today’s Agenda

Introductions Finding Articles

Search strategy Databases

Virtual Library

Library Home Pagehttp://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/

Class page http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/nursingpubmed.html

Searchpath http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/searchpath/choice.html

Research process

Choose your topic. Create a search

strategy. Search. Evaluate. Revise, search

again, evaluate. Use the information.

Finding articles

Use a database Quick Search Box

ProQuest Facts.com Points of View

Finding Articles Databases by Subject All Databases Off-campus databases

Organizing Your Topic

Concept map http://www.nwmissouri.edu/

library/courses/research/conceptMap.html

The “W questions”•Who•Where•What

•Why •When •How

Organizing your topic

“The PICOT” methodPatient or Problem

Describe the primary condition or patient group.

Intervention What treatment, test, prognostic factor, or exposure are you considering?

Comparison What are you comparing this to?(not required)

Outcome Describe what you and the patient want to happen.

Type of Question/Type of Study

Searching Databases

Use Boolean logic And Or Not Phrases “….” () *

Searching Databases

Use the Advanced Search Screen

Use synonyms Use truncation (*)

Model* retrieves Model, models,

modelling, modelled, etc

Filter your results

Use subject headings

Limiters Age Human Gender Language Article type Full text

Finding Articles Group Challenge

Use Pub Med Use Your Topic Find Mesh Heading Search for Article

3 important things about the database

Why the article would be useful.

Other places to search

CinahlPsycArticlesSociological

AbstractsGeneral Index

If there’s no full text???

If the article is not fulltextAsk a library staff

memberFulltext elsewhere Interlibrary loan

Evaluate

Does it meet the requirements of the assignment?

Purpose? Audience? Bias? Evaluating Webpages http://www.unm.edu/~unmvclib/ evaluatingwebpages.html

Evaluate

Do you have enough quality information?

Yes, write & cite. No, choose another

resource from the class page.

Write and Cite

WriteDon’t plagiarise http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

Cite your sourceKnightCite

http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite/?