Raritan Bay Medical CenterResearch & Education CommitteeMarch 16, 2010Yvonne Wesley RN PhD FAANwww.ywesleyconsulting.com

Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to: 

Identify at least 3 databases containing literature to support EBP

Critique search strategies to find level one evidence 

Demonstrate search results that support nursing practice

  POPULAR SCHOLARLY PROFESSIONALPurpose To inform and entertain the

general readerTo communicate research and scholarly ideas

To apply information; to provide professional support

Audience General public Other scholars, students Practitioners in the field, professionals

Coverage Broad variety of public interest topics, cross disciplinary

Very narrow and specific subjects

Information relevant to field and members of a group

Publisher Commercial Professional associations; academic institutions; and many commercial publishers

Professional, occupational, or trade group

Writers Employees of the publication, freelancers (including journalists and scholars)

Scholars, researchers, experts, usually listed with their institutional affiliation

Members of the profession, journalists, researchers, scholars

Characteristics

•Little technical language or jargon•Few or no cited references•Absence of bibliographies•General summaries of background information•Contain numerous advertisements•Articles are usually brief; between 1-7 pages

•Little or no background information given•Technical language and discipline- specific jargon•PEER REVIEW, editorial board•Bibliographies included•Procedures and materials often described in detail•Articles are longer, often over 5 pages

•Application of new technology•Employment issues•Practitioners viewpoint•Technical language used•Interpretation of research trends and issues•Articles are usually brief; between 1-7 pages•Contain advertisements

Frequency Frequent, on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis

Less frequent, on a monthly, quarterly, or annual basis

Frequent, on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis

Examples Time, US News and World Report, Modern Healthcare

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal

Revised by Jackie Mardikian and Lisa Vecchioli, Oct 2000

Online search engines. InfoSeek, AltaVista, Yahoo, Goggle A9,

[www.A9.com] AOL, Ask,

[www.ask.com] Lycos, and MSN

National Library of Medicine’s

PubMed

PubMed home

Studies in medicine, nursing

dentistry, psychiatry, veterinary and

allied health

Individual and Institutional

subscriptions: free and at a cost

depending on vendor and desired

search options

Virtual Academic Library Environment of New Jersey Consortium http://www.valenj.org

New Jersey Knowledge Initiative http://www.njki.org/

New Jersey State Library http://www.njstatelib.org/    

Ovid

Professionals, researchers, students, and information managers in the scientific and healthcare communities rely on Ovid for the information they need to explore a new theory, fuel a new discovery, inform ongoing research, and improve patient care.

Products and Services: catalog of world-class book, journal, and database resources, innovative information search and discovery tools, customized services.

Silver Platter The SilverPlatter WebSPIRS Internet

Service was retired on June 30, 2009.  Access to your databases previously on SilverPlatter can now be found on our new platform OvidSP, available at http://ovidsp.ovid.com.

Web of Knowledge is today's premier research platform, helping you quickly find, analyze, and share information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. You get integrated access to high quality

literature through a unified platform that links a wide variety of content and search terms together, creating one common vocabulary and one seamless search.

Thomson Reuters

CINAHL Cumulative Index of Nursing & Allied

Health Literature The world’s most comprehensive source of

nursing & allied health journals, Full text for more than 580 journals

indexed in CINAHL. Of those, 280 are not found with full text Coverage dating back to 1981

Medline The world’s most comprehensive source of

life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information.

Contains nearly 11 million records from more than 7,300 different publications dating from 1965-present.

MEDLINE is updated weekly.

HealthSTAR Health Services Technology, Administration, and

Research The National Library of Medicine’s online webbase

within the following environments: (1) PubMed (http://PubMed.gov ) journal citations added

weekly (2) LocatorPlus (http://locatorplus.gov) books, book

chapters, technical reports and conference papers are added regularly

(3) AcademyHealth (formerly the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy) meeting abstracts

HaPI Health and Psychosocial Instruments Features material on unpublished information-

gathering tools for clinicians that are discussed in journal articles, such as:

questionnaires, interview schedules, tests, checklists, rating and other scales, coding schemes, and projective techniques.

Over 2/3 of the tools are in medical and nursing areas such pain measurement, quality of life assessment, and drug efficacy evaluation.

PsycInfo Developed by The American Psychological

Association Citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal

articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports,

Covers the field of psychology medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law.

Spanning 1806 to present, Over 80,000 records updated weekly.

The Cochrane Library evidence to inform healthcare decision-

making includes reliable evidence from systematic

reviews, & clinical trials Cochrane

gold standard in evidence-based health care.

The Joanna Briggs Institute A research institute based in Australia. Health

researchers and clinicians around the world collaborate with the Institute as collaborating centres, synthesis and utilisation groups and as members of and subscribers to the Institute’s publications and resources

Joanna Briggs Systematic Reviews fully refereed library that publishes systematic

reviews of literature. http://www.joannabriggs.edu.au/pubs/systematic_reviews.php

Are tympanic temps as accurate as oral among elderly hospitalized patients? Hospitalized elderly Temperatures tympanic vs oral Accuracy

Subject headings Temperature Thermometers

Level I: systematic review or meta-analysis of RCTs

Level II: one well-designed RCT

Level III: one well-designed controlled trials without randomization

Level IV: one well-designed case-control and cohort studies

Level V: systematic reviews of descriptive and qualitative studies

Level VI: one descriptive or qualitative study

Level VII: opinion of authorities and/or reports of expert committees

Will nurses on an oncology unit who sit through a one-hour training have higher ‘Nursing Knowledge Attitude’ scores than nurses who are not given pain management training?

CINAHL

CochranePsycINFO

HaPi

Pain Management

Nurses’ Attitude

Oncology

Nursing Knowledge Attitude

Let’s begin our savvy search