tutorial 44. research topics & terms in nursing resources: us university databases

Tutorial 44. Research Topics & Terms in

Nursing

• Resources: • US University Databases

Knowledge is Empowerment

This will be the journey:

1. Learn how to access Medline Terms “MeSH” with 2 examples

2. Learn how to access Medline Index and one example


To access, go to United States University web page

1. From home page, look for the bar across the page, click on STUDENT SERVICES and Library.2. Scroll down3. Look for and select:Medline Full Text (EBSCO)


For the username & password to use EBSCO, send a USU e-mail to the University Librarian [email protected]


Let’s learn from Medline terms, commonly named “MeSH” terms, please click

here


Terms and medical terminology can be searched on this screen. You can view a tutorial for your assistance.


Learn about “Pulmonary” and all the possible combinations of terms, as well as the right “term” used by Medline. For example, Pulmonary

diseases, Use: Lung Diseases. By searching the right terms, we retrieve the right articles.


Another example from MeSH terms

• Following the Tutorial, Click “Tuberculosis” (1).

• See all subheading or sub terms. If you would like to search, for example “Drug Therapy” select the term (2),

• click “Explode” (3) and • “Search Database”(4).


Learning Tuberculosis terms:

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See results for Drug Therapy. Remember to apply “filters” by clicking Full Text, from “Refine your results”. The results will

be organize by relevance and appearing the latest articles first.


Searching Medline Indexes:

• Another option is to search Medline “Indexes” by open “More” (1)and selecting “Indexes”.

• From “Browse an Index” select MeSH Heading (Major) (2),

• write in “Browse for” Code of ethics (3)

• or your term and select “Browse” (4)


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Remember, select MeSH Heading (Major) (2), write Code of ethics (3) or any term and select Browse (4). The numbers listed in the

right column (5), indicates the number of articles that are indexed under the term. If you want to access the articles, select the “term”(6), select “and”(7), click “add” (8) and “Search” (9)

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See results from searching the “Indexes” of Medline with full text database.


You have learned how to find your terms, and in this particular case, how to search MeSH terms. The next step is to write the terms in

the search boxes, see examples:

• *Note: Searching MeSH the results are less and more relevant

Searching box 1 (AND) Searching box 2

(AND) Searching box 3

Lung Disease Hispanics United States

Code of Ethics Nursing United Kingdom

Tuberculosis Drug Therapy Latin America

MESH= Tuberculosis +drug therapy *

Latin America


From the previous examples, learn how to write the terms in each box (1-3). It is important to always remember to select

the Full Text from “Refine your results”

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Let me know if you need more assistance, I am

always available at: Catalina Lopez

clopez@usuniversity or (619) 477 6310 Ext 2017

THANKS

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