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NC LIVE Medical Health Sciences Resources
Nursing Resources

• Julia Shaw-Kokot and Lisa Philpotts
• UNC-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

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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)

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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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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)

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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).

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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

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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

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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

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CINAHL Citation Record

• Easily switch between this full text
• Main indexing terms are hyperlinked
• Author, journal, etc.
• Major minor subject headings

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Lets 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?

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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Lets Practice!

• Using the same nursing case that we had before
  (interventions school nurses can use to help
  prevent student obesity), lets 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?

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Class Outline

• Introduction (10 min)
• CINAHL Keyword Searching and Viewing Results (20
  min)
• CINAHL Subject Heading and Journal Search (20
  min)
• CINAHL Citation Searching (20 min)
• Health Source Nursing/Academic Edition (5 min)
• Metasearching in EBSCOhost (10 min)
• Wrap-up (5 min)

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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

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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)

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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.

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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

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Lets Practice!

• You probably found a few good articles for the
  obesity case that weve been using.
• Now lets build our results set by finding
  articles that cite one or more of those, and/or
  are related to them.

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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)

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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

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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)

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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!

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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

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Lets 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?

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

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What Have We Learned?

• CINAHL is the primary database for clinical and
  academic literature in nursing and allied health
• CINAHLs limits, subject headings, and journals
  indexes allow for powerful searching
• Cited article searching presents an added method
  for finding articles

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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

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Further (Chat) Questions

• What didnt 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!