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Nursing Resources

Julia Shaw-Kokot and Lisa PhilpottsUNC-CH Health Sciences Library

Based on work by K.T.L. Vaughan

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Welcome!

Instructor: Lisa Philpotts/Julia Shaw-Kokot Logistics

90 minute class Please log in to NC LIVE in a separate

window Please use the chat at any time Chat-based discussion follows each

section Archived for public use


Class Outline Introduction (10 min) CINAHL: Keyword Searching and

Viewing Results (20 min) CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20

min) CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Edition (5 min) Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) Wrap-up (5 min)


Introductions

Please use the chat to introduce yourself: Name(s) Institution Why you are taking this class

Lisa or Julia will respond orally to questions, etc.






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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 (July ‘09).

PDF backfiles to 1981 are also included. Searchable by keyword, controlled subject

heading, or citation linking (2000 to present).


Beginning Searching: Keywords Advanced search better than basic

Structured search boxes with Boolean/wildcards

Field searching Keyword searching

Anywhere in record (default) Specific field

Suggest Subject Terms option


“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 email updates sent automatically Print out record of searches performed Put in a personal database

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Results! Standard EBSCO format Article citations in reverse

chronological order Title hyperlinked to citation record Much full text (HTML or PDF) Some with citation linking

Faceted searching via subject headings

Narrow by publication type Standard * truncation


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 interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity.

Do a keyword search in CINAHL for some preliminary results.

Let us know what you found?


Class Outline Introduction (10 min) CINAHL: Keyword Searching and Viewing

Results (20 min) CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching

(20 min) CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

(5 min) Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) Wrap-up (5 min)


Advanced Searching: CINAHL Headings

Controlled subject headings denote “aboutness” of an article/book/etc.

Help find articles on a topic regardless of words used in title/abstract

Allows for the option to cover multiple terms

Allows for more precision with subheadings


Browsing for CINAHL Headings Click “CINAHL Headings” button Browsing menu: suggest Relevancy Ranked

option Also could use Term begins with or Term

contains – these match vocabulary not meaning

Can choose heading straight from results Hyperlink to more information about

heading Click on heading to see subheadings


CINAHL Heading Record

Shows location of term on the “tree” MUST explode term to get narrower terms

Major concept = main point of the article Specific subheadings (nursing, therapy,

etc.) Process: select options desired, then

select the proper Boolean option, and “Add.”


Let’s Practice!

Using the same nursing case that we had before (interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity), let’s try some of our more advanced search techniques.

What are the best subject headings for this search?

What are some secondary headings related to them that might also be helpful?



Results (20 min) CINAHL: Subject Heading and Journal

Search (20 min) CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) Health Source: Nursing/Academic



Searching by Cited References Now a feature in most EBSCO

databases Search forward and backward in

scholarly time by tracing items in bibliographies

Finds articles that are similar because of citation links rather than keywords – like genealogy!

Find these by browsing OR by searching


Cited Reference Browsing

Start with results from a standard search. Some have a “Times Cited in this

Database” link Links to articles whose bibliographies are

known 3 Options:

Cited references (parents) Citing articles (children) Related records (cousins)


Cited Reference Searching

Tab on the Advanced Search Menu Form to enter information about

starting article CINAHL searches for citing articles

as default; can move to parents & cousins from here.


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/email individual articles Also can save/email entire searches and

collections of articles using MyEBSCOhost


Let’s Practice!

You probably found a few good articles for the obesity case that we’ve been using.

Now let’s build our results set by finding articles that cite one or more of those, and/or are “related” to them.







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.

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CINAHL vs. Health Source

Health Source Secondary resource 550 fulltext/850

indexed journals Standard EBSCO

limits No controlled

vocabulary Additional non-

literature resources

CINAHL Core nursing

resource 597 fulltext/

2,960 indexed journals

Extensive limits CINAHL Subject

Headings Literature only



Results (20 min) CINAHL: Subject Heading Searching (20

min) CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

(5 min) Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min) Wrap-up (5 min)


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, Pre-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 (interventions school nurses can use to help prevent student obesity).

What databases are most useful to search together?

What new information did you find?




min) CINAHL: Citation Searching (20 min) Health Source: Nursing/Consumer


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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

Cited article searching presents an added method for finding articles


What Else Have We Learned? About20% of journals in CINAHL

are available with some full text Health Source: Nursing/Academic

Edition is also an option for nursing information

You can search multiple EBSCO databases at once to expand options


Further (Chat) Questions

What didn’t we talk about?

What do you want to know more about?

Where do you see these resources as useful?

Please use the chat to discuss!

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