LibGuides: NUR 4033 or 4100 -- Nursing Research: Overview

Spring 2020

Quick links to: PubMed CINAHL PsycINFO SPORTDiscus Web of Science Google Scholar

Need help? I'm available: email wiswellj@, Zoom, chat, appointment, ~~(with 6 ft. spacing) at Levine 542F or Library~~, wherever. Zoom by appointment, but almost any time.

Essential Nursing and Health Databases

For finding articles.

CINAHL Complete
There are several ways that you can limit results to only nurse-researchers or to only Nursing journals.

Provides indexing to nearly 1,200 nursing, allied health, biomedical, and consumer health journals, as well as publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. It includes healthcare books, nursing dissertations, standards of professional practice, nurse practice acts, and educational software. Abstracts are included for over 250 journals.
PubMed
If you dig under "additional filters" on the left column, you can limit to only Nursing journals.

PubMed provides access to bibliographic information from more than 5,200 journals in the life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, and provides access to over 14 million citations and abstracts in the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and preclinical sciences.

Coverage: 1950-present

PubMed Clinical Queries
The middle column of your search results will give you systematic reviews. The leftmost column will give you primary studies.
This search gives you the same results as adding systematic [sb] to your search.

More Databases for Nursing

PsycINFO
Psychology, mental health, organizational behavior

Covers psychology and related disciplines,with 97 percent of the material peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Coverage: 1887-present
Google Scholar
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 journal titles, with over 715 titles in full-text.

Provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, nutrition, oncology, pediatric care, pharmacology, public health, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. Includes more than 12,000 full text dissertations.
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Authoritative reviews of primary studies. If there is a Cochrane review on topic, you will want to start with that. 100% full text.

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare.

Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually.

Part of the Cochrane Collection Plus database.

Nursing+ : Best Evidence for Nursing Care
By McMaster University, Ontario. Requires registration. You will need to find full text. No automatic links from this database.

Distance Education Services

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Getting Full Text!

Our Find@ASU button in our article databases takes you to electronic full text, if we have it.

Video -- Click on Find@ASU
4 minute video

Still not getting full text? Many full text articles are available for free in some form. If you have a distinct article title or a DOI, try a quick search in Google Scholar (and Google). We also have ILLiad to get articles from other libraries. NEW -- Try Unpaywall.

Unpaywall
I've been happy with this, a button that turns green when it detects free access.. Add it to your browser: Chrome, Firefox, and probably Safari.

Need help?

See the Nursing guide.

Need extra help? Contact me, wiswellj@appstate.edu.

Are you using the New York University EBP tutorial? Here are some notes on it, regarding resources available to you.

Outcomes

We have lots of books and ebooks on Nursing research (ebooks only). This one looks good. It focuses on outcome measures.

Nursing outcomes : the state of the science by Diane M. Doran
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2011
Chapters:
Patient outcomes as an accountability
Functional status
Self-care
Symptom management
Pain as a symptom outcome
Adverse patient outcomes
Psychological distress as a nurse-sensitive outcome
Patient satisfaction as a nurse-sensitive outcome
Mortality rate as a nurse-sensitive outcome
Healthcare utilization

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Contact -- John Wiswell

John Wiswell

Health Sciences Librarian

wiswellj@appstate.edu

Levine Hall 542F and Belk Library 225 (828)262-7853

Available for consultations with students, faculty, and staff.

I work with distance and on-campus students. Web conferencing is available, by appointment. I can also do workshops for groups.

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A few recent questions

Having problems with accessing full text of articles?

Hey, I'm interested in examples when you cannot get full text that it appears we should have. My testing shows our linking is working pretty well, but it helps to get examples with details when things are not working. We also have a "Report a Problem" page that goes to my colleagues Allan and Andie. Thanks, JohnW, wiswellj@appstate.edu

Does APPsearch include articles found in CINAHL and PubMed?

Use CINAHL and PubMed for most of your needs. I like APPsearch and Google Scholar too. But CINAHL is a Nursing-friendly world. And PubMed is what you will most easily have available throughout your career.

APPsearch does include CINAHL. A lot of the top results for the searches you do will be from CINAHL.

A more complex answer about MEDLINE--

APPsearch kind of searches PubMed. It searches MEDLINE. MEDLINE is the main component of PubMed. There are about 24 million journal article records in Medline, and PubMed contains them all, plus about 3 million other records. Where I really notice the difference is for recently published articles. If an article is published today, it will be in PubMed tomorrow, but it might take a couple of months to get into MEDLINE and APPsearch.

Also, a lot of articles that show up in APPsearch are in two or more databases. Usually they only display once. So a result might show that it's from CINAHL, but it also is in MEDLINE or a range of other databases.

Problem with Ovid Journals

7/30/2018 -- Our Find@ASU linking to this important set of journals is not working. I'm sorry for the nuisance, but here is a temporary solution. If you are trying to access an Ovid journal (also called Wolters Kluwer), use this link into the entire set of journals. Then search on the article title.

8/2/2018 -- I'm still seeing this problem. I think in almost all cases this is a problem related to Ovid's slowness but that can sometimes be resolved by clicking through the sequence a second time. Changing browsers (and clearing history/cleaning your cache) has worked at times also. Or use the link into Ovid below and search there.

I'm sorry about the obstacles all year. Thanks for hanging in there. Maybe we'll see the golden age of information access someday. For now, Go App Nurses! --JW

Ovid Journals and eBooks
Also, if you click on "Journals" on the blue horizontal strip, you'll see the list of 134 Ovid journals.

Ovid Journals and eBooks provides access to journal articles and ebooks in the health and life sciences with particular focus on nursing.

Coverage: 1978-present

How to keep up with research after you graduate?

Congratulations graduates!

PubMed will always be available, and the free abstracts are reasonably informative. This is the free version of PubMed, that is not linked to Library subscriptions.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), NICE (from the UK), and other countries' agencies continues to summarize and appraise the evidence. ~~AHRQ 1~~, AHRQ 2, NICE 1, NICE 2.
- (July 2018 -- The National Guidelines Clearinghouse has been taken down by AHRQ. Unfortunately. Look for it on another site this fall 2018.)
Cochrane has a free website and offers many of their reviews for free.
Many research articles (probably >50%) become available for free on the web in the months after their publication, due to requirements of funding agencies and the cooperation of publishers and universities. Google Scholar is useful for finding most of these.
Consider signing up for the AHEC Digital Library.
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