Peg Allen's presentations

ACE Lectureship

• My presentations from the 5th Annual Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Practice

Evidence-Based Practice: Implementation Strategies for Nurses

Madison, Wisconsin April 17, 2002 - selected links updated July 2006

Searching for the Best Evidence - links

• Wisconsin AHEC Library Outreach & my story http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dlcl/eis/pdf/chn3604.pdf

Resources for Evidence Based Practice - for more current links, see ACE Lectureship links, above

• Star Model of Evidence Based Practice (Stevens) http://www.acestar.uthscsa.edu/Goals/model1325.htm
• Evidence Based Nursing journal http://ebn.bmjjournals.com/
• Centre for Evidence-Based Nursing, University of York http://www0.york.ac.uk/healthsciences/centres/evidence/cebn.htm
• NAHRS - hosted journal club; member websites and other resources http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/
• Searching the Nursing Literature http://class.kent.edu/public/kent365/index.html
• National Library of Medicine (NLM) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
• National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NN/LM) http://www.nnlm.gov/
• NAHRS Task Force to Map the Literature of Nursing http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/
• Key and Electronic Nursing Journals http://nahrs.library.kent.edu/resource/reports/specrpts.htm
  

Searching

• MEDLINE/PubMed http://www.pubmed.gov
• "Making Sense of Subsets" from PNR Dragonfly http://nnlm.gov/pnr/news/200101/subsets.html
• Cinahl Information Systems, Inc. http://www.cinahl.com/
• Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/umlsmain.html
• Searching for Nursing Theory http://www.ualberta.ca/~jrnorris/nt/CINAHL/allen.html
• TRIP database http://www.tripdatabase.com/
• NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/welcome.htm
• Essential nursing references http://www.nln.org/nlnjournal/nurse_res.htm
• BadgerLink http://www.badgerlink.net/
• ERIC http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/
• Ovid PsycINFO tutorial http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/subjects/SOWK/PsychInfo/
• BadgerLink Newspapers http://www.badgerlink.net or via Wisconsin library websites
• Health News websites http://www.healthywisconsin.org/hnews.htm
• Health and Medicine in the News http://www.biomed.lib.umn.edu/hmed/
• Biomedicine and Health in the News http://library.uchc.edu/bhn/
• NurseLinx Newsletter http://www.nurselinx.com
• NLM Locator Plus http://locatorplus.gov
  
• CHID - Combined Health Information Databasse http://chid.nih.gov/
• MEDLINEplus http://medlineplus.gov/
• healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/
• Healthy Wisconsin People http://www.healthywisconsin.org

Internet Resources

• Hardin MD - Nursing http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/nurs.html
  
• Nursing Sites on the World Wide Web http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/hsl/internet/nsgsites.html
• HealthWeb - Nursing http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60
• OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information http://omni.ac.uk/
• CINAHLsources Web Index http://www.cinahl.com/csources/csources.htm
  • Diane Wink's Resources for Nurses and Families http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~wink/home.html
  • Joan Fleitas - Bandaides & Blackboards http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/fleitas/contents.html
• Advanced Practice
• Medscape - Nurses http://www.medscape.com/nurseshome
• NP Central http://www.npcentral.net/
• Education/Universities
• HealthWeb - Nursing (Education section) http://healthweb.org/browse.cfm?subjectid=60
• Virtual Nursing College (VNC) http://www.langara.bc.ca/vnc/
• Skilled Nursing Resource Site for Web-based Continuing Education http://www.love2learn.com/nureval.htm
• National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission http://www.nlnac.org
• Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Accreditation/
• Nursing Publishers
  • Lippincott NursingCenter http://www.nursingcenter.com/ (includes content formerly onSpringNet)
  • RN web http://rn.pdr.net/be_core/r/index.jsp
• Nursing Organizations
  • ANA NursingWorld http://www.nursingworld.org/
  • American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) http://www.aacn.org/
  • AMIA Nursing Working Group http://www.amia-niwg.org/
  • AORN http://www.aorn.org/
  • Oncology Nursing Society http://www.ons.org/
• Nursing Research
  • National Institute for Nursing Research (NINR) http://www.nih.gov/ninr/
  • Nursing Theories Page - started by Judy Norris http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/
  • QualPage, also started by Judy Norris http://www.qualitativeresearch.uga.edu/QualPage/
  • Royal Windsor Society for Nursing Research http://www.kelcom.igs.net/~nhodgins/
• Research in progress
  • STTI Registry of Nursing Research http://www.stti.iupui.edu/library/
  • Canadian-International Nurse Researcher Database (Open access ceased)
    • See CASN Nursing Research Database – password required www.casn.ca/Databases/nursing_research_database.htm
• Statistical Resources
  • HRSA Bureau of Health Professions - Division of Nursing http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/nursing/
  • Health Services Information Center, University of Washington, Laura Larsson (Data Sources by Subject) http://depts.washington.edu/hsic/stats/index.shtml
• Nursing Discussion Forums http://www.ualberta.ca/%7Ejrnorris/nursinglists/
  
  

Additional web links from Dr. Karin T. Kirchhoff of UW Madison School of Nursing

Background Information

• UW-Madison Health Sciences Libraries Evidence-Based Health Care Presentations http://www.hsl.wisc.edu/weston/ebhc.cfm
• Netting the Evidence http://www.nettingtheevidence.org.uk/
• The EBM Toolbox http://cebm.jr2.ox.ac.uk/docs/toolbox.html
• Evidence-based Decision Making http://www.evidencebased.net/
• Oncology Nursing Society Evidence-Based Practice Resource Center http://onsecom.ons.org/ebp/

Evidence-Based Practice Resources

• About the Cochrane Library http://www.update-software.com/ccweb/cochrane/revabstr/ccabout.htm
• Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/mainindex.htm
• Evidence-based Practice Centers http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/epc
• The Joanna Briggs Institute for Evidence Based Nursing and Midwifery http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/
• The NICHD Cochrane Neonatal Collaborative Review Group (alphabetical listing of systematic reviews) http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cochraneneonatal/cochrane.htm
• Clinical Evidence (subscription required) http://www.clinicalevidence.com

Guidelines

• National Guideline Clearinghouse http://www.guideline.gov/index.asp
• American Heart Association Guidelines http://216.185.112.5/presenter.jhtml?identifier=2158
• CDC Recommends: The Prevention Guidelines System http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/cdcRecommends/AdvSearchV.asp
• Society of Critical Care Medicine guidelines and practice parameters http://www.sccm.org/profresources/guidelines.html
• Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement http://www.icsi.org/
• National Kidney Foundation Clinical Practice Guidelines http://www.kidney.org/professionals/doqi/guidelineindex.cfm
• NIH Consensus Statements - Index by Date http://consensus.nih.gov/cons/consdate.htm
• PDQ(Physician Data Query) : NCI's comprehensive cancer database http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/pdq/
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) http://www.rnao.org/ (see Best Practice Guidelines)
  

Implementation & Links

• The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing http://www.hartfordign.org/
• Woundcarenet http://www.woundcarenet.com/educat/links.htm
• Getting research into practice http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/R-Z/scharr/ir/units/resprac/index.htm (for how to make a change in practice)
• NMAP (part of OMNI) http://nmap.ac.uk
  

Other online presentations by Peg Allen

• "Search Strategies for Finding the Best Evidence" invited speaker, 16th Annual Issues in Nursing Research Conference in Park City, UT Feb 16, 2000. Available online at http://www.sandiego.edu/academics/nursing/theory/student.htm

Updated July 4, 2006

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