Medical Library Association (MLA) Approved Continuing Education Courses taught by Peg Allen

Please contact Peg Allen if interested in offering these courses at a professional meeting

Expert Searching for Nursing and Allied Health by Margaret (Peg) Allen and June Levy

See description on the NAHRS MLA website - contact June Levy if you want to offer locally

Links from syllabus, current May 2006

My presentations from Evidence-Based Nursing Practice Symposium (6 hours MLA CE)

Catch the Wave: Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, May 3, 2003

• What do nurses cite: NAHRS Mapping the Literature of Nursing summary report, with June Levy http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/symposium/Allen_Levy_files/frame.html
• Electronic full-text for nursing: books, journals, virtual libraries http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/symposium/Allen1_files/frame.html
• Searching for evidenced-based resources for nursing http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/symposium/Allen2_files/frame.html

Finding the Best Evidence to Meet Nursing Information Needs

Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona, Irvine, CA, October 3, 2005 (4 hours)

Central Arizona Biomedical Libraries and the Southern Arizona Biomedical Librarians, Phoenix, April 15, 2005 (6 hours)

Indiana Health Science Librarians Association, South Bend, April 6, 2005 (4 hours)

Tennessee Health Science Library Association (THeSLA), Nashville, September 29, 2004 (6 hours)

Ohio Health Science Library Association Conference, Columbus, March 31, 2003 (4 hours)

The Capital District Library Council, at the New York State Nurses Association,, Albany, March 26, 2003 (6 hours)

Michigan Health Science Library Association Conference, Ann Arbor - Wednesday October 16, 2002 (4 hours)

Course approved for 4 to 6 hours MLA CE Credit

Finding the Best Evidence to Meet Nursing Information Needs is a workshop for health sciences librarians who want to improve their ability to serve nursing managers, staff, faculty, and students. The course is also appropriate for nurses. It focuses on the best evidence-based information resources for nursing practice and research, including databases, websites, and the knowledge-based literature. The instructor will review high-quality information resources and demonstrate search techniques for finding answers to nursing questions submitted by participants. The instructor and participants will share and discuss ideas for meeting nursing information needs in both academic and practice settings.

Objectives:

Participants will be able to:

1. Describe knowledge-based information needs of nurses in clinical and educational settings and reflect on strategies to meet these needs
2. Identify high quality websites, subject directories and bibliographic databases for nursing.
3. Search for evidence-based nursing resources via Internet, CINAHL and MEDLINE
4. Find resources for nursing practice & management questions, such as competencies, job delineation, practice acts, licensing, organizations, legislative and economic issues
5. Identify marketing strategies to improve knowledge-based information services for nurses and nursing students in their organization, based on an understanding of nursing information needs. (6 hour version only)
   
   

Finding the Best Answers to Nursing Questions

Dallas, Texas May 18, 2002

Course approved for 6 hours MLA CE Credit; replaced by course noted above

Nursing Information Access: Library Services for the Nursing Profession

Course approved for 8 hours MLA CE Credit; last taught October 2001 at Triple Chapter Meeting in New Orleans

Nursing Information Access covers unique aspects of nursing and its knowledge-based information resources that impact information services for the nursing profession. It includes the development of nursing and its literature, assessment of nursing information needs, development of library services for nurses, and nursing information resources in all formats. The organizing framework will be the feedback lecture, with liberal use of audiovisuals and database/online demonstrations. Instructors will demonstrate effective database and Internet search techniques based on participant search questions. Participants will receive a syllabus including information presented in class, key Internet resources, sample resources, and an extensive annotated bibliography.

Objectives

At the conclusion of the course, the participant will be able to:

1. Understand the relationship of nursing information access issues to trends in nursing education and practice
2. Understand how nurses use knowledge-based information
3. Identify Internet resources related to current nursing issues and information needs.
4. Identify appropriate tools for developing collections of print and non-print information resources for nursing, including virtual collection development.
5. Understand the key features, similarities, and differences of the NLM and CINAHL databases.
6. Identify additional electronic databases and Internet resources relevant to nurses' knowledge-based information needs.
7. Describe key elements of successful bibliographic instruction for nurses.
8. Discuss issues in the delivery of nursing information services in both educational and clinical settings.
9. Identify marketing strategies to improve knowledge-based information services for nurses and nursing students in their organization, based on an understanding of how they use knowledge-based information.
   

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