Use the CINAHL electronic database at the AZ HSL

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Your Group Database Assignment

• Use the CINAHL electronic database at the AZ HSL
• Conduct a literature search to find 3-5
  pertinent, evidence based research studies
  related to your groups assigned topic (examples
  below)
• Patient Falls (accidental)
• Pressure Ulcers
• Restraints
• Hand Washing
• Post-operative Pain Management

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Group Assignment (continued)

• Limit your search to the years 2000 2008
• Prepare an abstract and poster presentation
• Provide a brief explanation for critical
  decisions made in your search process
• Include the number of articles in your focused
  search
• Submit articles using APA format
• The articles must be from peer-reviewed journals.
• Provide sound rationale for each of the articles
  selected

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WHERE DO I BEGIN?

• The assignment specifically states that the
  information must come from peer-reviewed journals.

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WHERE DO I BEGIN?

• The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
  Literature
• CINAHL

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What does CINAHL include?

• Journal articles
• Dissertations
• Chapter and book citations
• Standards of professional practice
• Audiovisual materials and educational software
• Conference proceedings

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CINAHL is available online from 1982 to the
present.

• Prior to 1982, you can use the Red Index
  Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health
  Literature found in Reference to look for
  citations.

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CINAHL does not use the same indexing terms as
MEDLINE in some cases
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Searching for articles.

• CINAHL is one of the best databases to use for
  your assignment.
• It allows you to look for articles on nursing
  topics that are peer-reviewed and appear in
  nursing journals.

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A SAMPLE SEARCH

• First go to the Library web page,
• http//www.ahsl.arizona.edu
• Scroll down the left side of the page to Quick
  Links. Click on CINAHL. On the resulting screen,
  enter your first term in the search box and click
  on the red Search button.

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EXPLODING

• When you explode a term, you tell the computer
  to include any more specific term(s) indented
  under your first term. If you click on Explode,
  you retrieve more information which may be
  pertinent to your research (expand your search).

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FOCUSING

• When you focus a subject, you tell the computer
  to retrieve only those citations for which the
  subject is the major point of the article (narrow
  your search). When the retrieval comes back, the
  focused word will have an asterisk beside it.

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EXPLODE AND FOCUS?

• You may chose just to explode or just to
  focusfor this assignment, it may be easier to
  just click on Explode if you are combining more
  than one term.
• You may do both. You dont have to do either.

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COMBINING SEARCHES

• The number to the left of the search is the
  number you select to combine with other search
  items.
• The numbers to the right state how many articles
  you have retrieved with that particular search
  statement.

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Managing the citations

• You can take the retrieval and print the results
  or you may download them or email them to
  yourself. Keep a copy of your search
  strategy!!!!!!!

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record

• Each journal article produced in any database has
  various components. The components may be called
  by different names.
• At the beginning of the record in each CINAHL
  citation is the Accession Number
• Accession Number 2004168234.

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• The accession number (AN) is a specific control
  number given to this journal article. This is an
  important number if you are requesting an
  Inter-Library Loan as it helps to facilitate
  verification of the article.
• OVID MEDLINE uses the term, Unique Identifier
  (UI) for the same purpose.

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• Special fields contained
• CINAHL provides information of what is in a
  particular record, for instance it may say that
  abstracts, cited references or full text.

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• AUTHOR (AU) The authors or authors name(s) are
  listed. The last name, space, initial(s) and
  titles such as Jr., Sr. and numerical indicators
  such as Copeland JG III. A maximum of ten names
  may be included.

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• Institutional affiliation (IN)
• This applies to the first authors affiliation.
• Available in CINAHL since 1992.

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• Lists the actual title of the journal article.
  In CINAHL, if the article isnt in English, the
  language of the article is designated in square
  brackets after the title. See example
  below.
• Novel peptide and protein markers for the
  diagnosis of myocardial ischaemia and ischaemic
  damage of the myocardium German.

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• If a foreign language is designated by brackets
  after the title, the TOTAL article will be in
  that language even though you may see an English
  abstract.
• If you request an Inter-Library Loan, the article
  will not come to the Library as a translated
  document. It will be in the language specified.

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• If you cant read the technical language of a
  specific language, the translation costs are very
  expensive. Explore the costs before ordering any
  foreign language journal that must be translated.

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• SOURCE (SO) The name of the journal, periodical,
  series, or magazine. Source is the tag MEDLINE
  and CINAHL provide to show the name of the
  journal or periodical. Other vendors may use
  another tag to describe this.

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• The source may have the complete name of the
  journal, an abbreviation, or both.
• Clinical Nurse Specialist. 18(4)218-9, 2004
  Jul-Aug.

ISSUE NO.
PAGE NUMBERS
VOLUME NUMBER
DATE
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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• In CINAHL, when you click on the link for
  complete record, the abbreviation of the source
  is also listed.
• Abbreviated Source COMMUNITY DENT ORAL
  EPIDEMIOL. 28(3)218-24, 2000 Jun. (11 ref)

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Anatomy of a bibliographic record continued

• Here is how citations appear in OVID MEDLINE.
• Lead contamination in candy. FDA Consumer.
  38(4)7, 2004 Jul-Aug.
• This is from PubMed.
• Exposure to traffic and the onset of myocardial
  infarction.N Engl J Med. 2004 Oct
  21351(17)1721-30.

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• In the PubMed citation, New England Journal of
  Medicine is abbreviated.
• You may go to the journal database section
• http//www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?dbj
  ournals to determine the full title.

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• When you are assigned to select 3 peer-reviewed
  journals for Nursing 379, look for articles that
  contain at least 3 and preferably 4-5 pages for
  your paper. Some journal articles are very
  short. Choose your articles wisely.

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• This citation is from MEDLINE
• Sarnecky MT. Heroism. A core value of the Army
  Nurse Corps.Nurs Leadersh Forum. 2001
  Summer5(4)134-9. PMID 12004651 PubMed -
  indexed for MEDLINE

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Searching for journals

• You may find the journal in full text in the
  CINAHL database. You may print from there.

You may find the journal in the library catalog,
and go to the third floor and copy the printed
journal article. You may find the needed journal
in a list of over 6,000 electronic journals the
library owns.
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Check to see if the Journal is available On
campus in print! Click Search the Library Catalog.
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If you do not own the APA manual, it is available
in Ready ReferenceWZ 345 P512P 2001
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Looking for help in citing those articles youve
identified so theyre in proper APA Format? Its
easyuse RefWorks!
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