Literature Searches Flashcards
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An application, or application program, is a
software program that runs on computer.
Web browsers, e-mail programs, word
processors, games, and utilities are all
applications.
Computer Applications
The word ________ is used because each program has a specific application for the user
Application
Microsoft suite of products (Office,
Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
Internet browsers like Firefox, Safari,
and Chrome.
Mobile pieces of software such as
Pandora (for music appreciation), Skype
(for real-time online communication),
and Slack (for team collaboration)
APPLICATION SOFTWARE EXAMPLES
research that provides evidence
used to support nursing practices.
Nursing, as an evidence-based area
of practice, has been developing
since the time of Florence
Nightingale to the present day,
where many nurses now work as
researchers based in universities as
well as in the health care setting
NURSING RESEARCH
New Opportunities
Big Data
- Automatic Capture and Analysis
- New strategies and exponential growth in mobile and tablet apps
1.) Defined as “___________ refers
to both the applications delivered as
services over the Internet and the
hardware and systems software in
the data centers that provide those
services
2.) Nursing as a _________
1.) Cloud Computing and Nursing
2.) data-centric and caring
To maintain professional credibility, a Nursing
Professional must:
Keep current with the published literature
Develop and maintain a list of bibliographic and other
sources on specific topics of interest for practice,
research, and/or education
Collaborate and network with colleagues regarding
specifics of professional practice
Information-seeking Behavior of RN’s - Information Literacy Process
- Recognize the need for evidence.
- Know how to search and find relevant information.
- Access, utilize, and evaluate such information within the practice environment.
MAINTAINING CURRENCY WITH THE PUBLISHED
LITERATURE – A resource must be:
- The resource covers the required specialty/field.
- The primary journals and peripheral material in the field are included.
- The resource is updated regularly and is current.
- The resource covers the appropriate period.
- One of the most useful resources for accessing information about current practice is the JOURNAL LITERATURE
Allows the nurse to RETRIVE A LIST OF CITATIONS of citations containing bibliographic details of the material indexed, subject headings, and author abstracts
- Have a CONTROLLED VOCABULARY also known as a thesaurus or subject heading list, to make electronic subject searching much easier
Bibliographic Retrieval Systems
produced by ______ Information Systems, a division of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO)
provides comprehensive coverage of the literature in
nursing and allied health from 1937 to the
present.
expanded to offer five databases
including three full-text versions.
CINAHL
the National Institutes of Health’s
Web site for patients and their families providing
information about diseases, conditions, and
wellness issues in language you can understand.
provides information about the latest
treatments, drugs or supplements, meanings of
words, and access to medical videos or
illustrations.
MEDLINE PLUS
a partnership with Elsevier, is a
nursing and allied health database of over 5
million records across 3500 journals. It uses the
ENTRÉE thesaurus, expanded with nursing and
allied health terms
OVID EmCare
provides access to
nursing and allied health literature, videos,
reference materials, and evidence-based
resources, including dissertations and
systematic reviews.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
Database
a full-text database
supporting nurses and midwives in the
United Kingdom
PROQUEST BRITISH NURSING INDEX
This collection is a comprehensive medical
resource providing full-text journal
content, eBooks, and evidence-based
information, including dissertations and
systematic reviews.
It includes MEDLINE®, which contains
journal citations and abstracts for
biomedical literature worldwided.
PROQUEST HEALTH AND MEDICAL COLLECTION
contains over 3800
journals & serials, and 37,000 books.
The digital archives go back as far as
1823. There are over 600 peer reviewed open-access journals.
ScienceDirect
database is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education and contains more than 1,600,000 citations covering education-related literature. It covers virtually all types of print materials, published and unpublished, from 1966 to the
present day
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)
produced by the
American Psychological Association,
provides access to psychologically
relevant literature from more than 2500
journals, dissertations, reports, scholarly
documents, books, and book chapters
with more than 3 million references from
the 1880s to the present.
PsycINFO database
can be accessed via Web of Science™ Core Collection
for a fee. Web of Science, part of Clarivate
Analytics, offers citations from over 20,000
journals carefully selected and evaluated and
indexed to deliver influential scientific
information Clarivate Analytics
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
offers a version of the Google
search engine with which most nurses are familiar.
In fact, approximately 67% of the more than 170
billion Internet searches each month are conducted
using Google
Google Scholar
uses a sociological thesaurus to index
over 2.5 million records from over 800 full-text
sociology journals, with abstracts from over
1500 additional journals. It also provides some
conference papers in full text. It covers all
subdisciplines of sociology and social work
including social psychology, gender or racial
issues, criminal justice, and religion.
SocINDEX
Labeled as the next-generation
approach to research, discovery solutions
have become a critical component within
most academic library systems, playing a vital
role in the effort to showcase the value of a
library’s collection, providing a unified index
and changing the way resources are
searched.
ProQuest’s Ex Libris Primo Discovery Service
(Primo)
provides a fast, streamlined search through a single
search box, but within the context of a
greater experience that pulls together
intuitive features and functionality, indexing,
and instant access to full text leveraged from
the EBSCOhost research platform and
databases, as well as from key information
providers.
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS)
