Nursing Information Access: Library Services for the Nursing Profession

Web References - see also links for other CE courses

Current as of October 2001; links will not be updated.

Nursing Trends

• Policy Statement: Evidence-based Decision-making and Nursing Practice, Canadian Nurses Association. (1998). http://www.cna-nurses.ca/pages/education/educationframe.htm \
• Dobbins, M., D. Ciliska, et al. (1998). Dissemination and Use of Research Evidence for Policy and Practice by Nurses: A Model of Development and Implementation Strategies. Working Paper prepared for the Dissemination and Utilization Advisory Committee, Canadian Nurses Association. http://www.cna-nurses.ca/_frames/resources/resourcesframe.htm

Collection Development

• "Interagency Council on Information Resources for Nursing. Essential Nursing References." Nursing and Health Care Perspectives (2000) 21(5): 247-54. Online at http://www.nln.org/nlnjournal/nurse_res.htm
• "Research spotlight. Is free online really free? A comparative study of the cost of online journal access: an interview with the authors." (2000) Hypothesis 14(3): 1-2.
• Utah Nursing Initiative, University of Utah. Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. (2000) http://medlib.med.utah.edu/ualcnurs/ualcnurs.html
• Evidence Based Nursing journal http://ebn.bmjjournals.com/
• Centre for Nursing Research http://www.jgh.ca/research/nursing/index.html Includes guides to using evidence-based databases, developed at the instigation of the Centre's Evidence-based Practice Committee. Also links to the hospital library's Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) Resource Page.
• Doody's Electronic Journal http://www.doody.com/dej.htm
• Allen, M. (1996). Celebrating Nursing History: What to Keep, Edited and references updated from NAHRS Newsletter, April 1994. 2001. http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/weeding.htm
• Allen, M. and Others (2000). Mapping the Literature of Nursing: Phase 1. Poster at Medical Library Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, May 8, 2000.
• Allen, M. (2001). Key and Electronic Nursing Journals. 2001.http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/specrpts.htm

Resources for Searching

• CMA Infobase - Clinical Practice Guidelines database, Canadian Medical Association. http://www.cma.ca/cpgs/
  A database of guidelines produced or endorsed in Canada by a national, provincial/territorial or regional medical or health organization, professional society, government agency or expert panel. Part of the Canadian Medical Association website.
• RNAO Best Practice Guidelines Project, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) http://www.rnao.org/BPG_May.htm
• STTI Registry of Nursing Research. http://www.stti.iupui.edu/library/
• Canadian-International Nurse Researcher Database http://nurseresearcher.com/
• PubMed http://www.pubmed.gov/
• Cinahl Information Systems http://www.cinahl.com
  • Allen, M. (1999). Searching Bibliographic Databases for Nursing Theory (On The Nursing Theory Page). http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nt/theory.html
  • University of Rochester filters for CINAHL for diagnosis, etiology/harm, prognosis and therapy at http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Educ/ebnfilt.htm Linked from Miner Library Information Links: Evidence-Based Health Care Resources on the Internet http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/Miner/Links/ebmlinks.html
    Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web at http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
• CHID - Combined Health Information Database http://chid.nih.gov/

Effective Bibliographic Instruction

• Minnesota Partnerships for Training. 2001.http://ruralmed.d.umn.edu/mnpft/cstud/library.html

Tutorials

• Searching Bibliographic Databases for Nursing Theory http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nt/CINAHL/allen.html
• Searching the Nursing Literature (tutorial with guest access) http://class.kent.edu/public/kent365/index.html
• Ovid PsycINFO tutorial, University of Calgary http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/subjects/SOWK/PsychInfo/
• Austin Community College http://library.austin.cc.tx.us/research/guides/VNG_tutorial/vng_assn.htm
• Nursing Resources: A Self-Paced Tutorial and Refresher (NYU) http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/info/instruct/Nursing/index.htm
• SUNY Buffalo HSL Online Tutorials (links) http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/ref/tutorials.html
• Guide to Tests and Measurement Instruments (University of Michigan Taubman Medical Library) http://www.lib.umich.edu/taubman/info/testsandmeasurement.htm

c2002 Margaret (Peg) Allen

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