Library Session NURS 501

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Library Session NURS 501

• Rachael Clemens

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Agenda

• Library Overview (Brochure)
• Nursing Literature gtgt Concept Analysis
• Database Instruction (CINAHL handout)
• Obtaining Material (SFX handout)
• RefWorks (RefWorks handout)
• Citing Your Sources (APA handout)
• For Additional Reference Help

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Library Guide for Nursing

• http//faculty.fullerton.edu/rclemens/Nursing.htm

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Assignment

• You will select a concept for potential
  development as a research idea
• You will analyze the concept using the method
  described by Walker and Avant
• Craft a scholarly paper, 7-8 pages

Concept Analysis Paper
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What is Scholarly Literature?
Peer Reviewed / Scholarly Publications Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Journal articles (research studies, clinical, lit reviews) More magazine or newspaper format
Articles are reviewed by experts in the field Articles are not subject to such in-depth review process
Geared toward the researcher Trade written by practitioners for practitioners
Articles typically include a reference list Popular written for the consumer not the expert
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Example of a Scholarly Journal
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Examples of Non Peer Reviewed Publications
Nursing Trade Publications Written by practitioners for practitioners Focus is on the particular industry or profession
Popular Magazines Typically written for the consumer / layperson Dont maintain a panel/jury of experts to review submitted articles
Newspapers
Most Websites
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Ulrichs Periodicals Directory

• Find out if a periodical is peer-reviewed /
  scholarly
• Databases A-Z gtgt Ulrichs

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Articles in Scholarly Journals

• Research
• Clinical / Best Practice
• Literature Review

Concept Analysis?
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• Research Articles
• Authors construct execute a study
• Empirical, quantitative, qualitative
• Easily identifiable in the abstract
• Purpose/Objective/Aim of the study
• Review of the related literature
• Research methodology
• Data collection
• Conclusions

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• Clinical / Best Practices Articles
• Presents information for the professional
  clinician
• May provide an overview of an issue or condition
• May discuss assessment or interventions to
  enhance clinical practice
• Some case studies
• Procedures
• This is how we did it

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• Literature Reviews
• Review (synthesizes results/conclusions of 2 or
  more articles on a given topic)
• Systematic Review (attempts to identify and
  synthesize all the literature on a given topic)
• Meta-analysis (statistical technique for
  assembling the results of several studies in a
  review into a single numerical estimate)

Relates to Evidence Based Medicine Find in
Cochrane Library
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Concept Analysis

1. Select a concept
2. Determine the aims or purposes of analysis
3. Identify all uses of the concept that you can
   discover
4. Determine the defining attributes
5. Identify a model case
6. Identify borderline, related, contrary, invented,
   and illegitimate cases
7. Identify antecedents and consequences
8. Define empirical referents

Look at sample concept analysis articles
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Identifying Uses of the Concept

• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
• Traces meaning, history and usage of words
• print online through A-Z list of databases
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Collection of encyclopedias and handbooks
• Available online through the A-Z list of
  databases
• Library Catalog for additional dictionaries and
  encyclopedias

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Database Instruction

1. Academic Search Elite
2. Cinahl
3. Health Source Nursing Academic
4. PsycINFO
5. PubMed
6. Cochrane Library

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Pollak Library Website

• www.library.fullerton.edu
• RESEARCH gtgt FIND ARTICLES gtgt BY SUBJECT gtgt
  NURSING

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Sample Search

• Concept analysis AND nursing
• Concept analysis AND vulnerable
• This will bring back articles with the phrase
  concept analysis or conceptual analysis and the
  term nursing somewhere in the article title,
  abstract or subject headings
• Limit your search to Peer-Review

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Recap

• Search several databases
• Use keywords subject headings
• Limit to scholarly / peer-reviewed
• If full-text not immediately available, use SFX
  to track down article
• May need to request material not owned by Pollak
  Library through ILLiad

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Citing Your Sources

• What?
• Tell your reader what information resources you
  used to help develop your thoughts and construct
  your paper
• Why?
• To back up your claims with documentation
  strengthens your argument or points
• To indicate where you got your information so
  that other people can follow-up
• To give credit to the original author(s)
• To avoid plagiarism

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Citing Your Sources

• APA Style
• From the American Psychological Association
• You will need to create a reference list and use
  parenthetical references within the text of your
  paper (2 separate but related actions)
• Difference between quoting verbatim (requires
  quotation marks) and giving credit for the
  general gist of a thought

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Elements of a Reference

• Article
• Author
• Year of publication
• Title of article
• Title of journal
• Volume (also include issue number if journal is
  paginated by issue)
• Page numbers
• Website
• Author or responsible entity
• Date of creation or modification
• Title of webpage
• Title/Name of overarching website if not clear in
  title of webpage
• Webpage address
• Date you accessed this resource

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Reference List Entry - Article

• Author, A. A. (Year of Publication). Title of
  article Subtitle of article. Magazine/Journal
  Title, Volume number (issue number if each issue
  begins on page 1), pages.
• Clemens, R. G. (2003). Delivery library
  services to distance students A case
  study. Reference Services Review, 54, 32-44.

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Reference List Tips

• References should appear in hanging indent form
  first line at the left margin, each succeeding
  line of a reference entry is indented.
• In titles of books, articles, films, and
  broadcasts capitalize only the first word of the
  title, the first word after a colon or dash, and
  proper nouns.
• In periodical titles capitalize all major words
  and all words of four letters or more.
• Periodical titles should be in italic.

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Parenthetical Reference Tips

• If you are citing a work by a single author, use
  the surname (do not include suffixes such as Jr.)
  and the year of publication separated by a comma
  in parentheses
• In a recent study of reaction time (Rogers, 1994)
  
• If you have just stated the author's name in the
  text, put the year of publication only in
  parentheses
• Peplau (1985) defines loneliness as a difference
  between desired and achieved social relationships.

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• Reference Desk 1st floor North
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